Shadows
Seasons
Moon Phases
Eclipses
Miscellaneous
100

The season that produces the longest shadows.

What is Winter?

100

These 2 seasons have an equinox.

What are Spring and Fall?

100

The phase of the moon where someone on Earth sees the whole face of the moon lit up.

What is Full Moon?

100

When the moon casts its shadow on the Earth we see a ________ eclipse.

What is Solar?


100

The Earth spins on its______.

What is axix?

200

The season that produces the shortest shadows.

What is Summer?

200

If Canada is in Winter, then the USA is in this season.

What is Winter?

200

The first half moon we see after a new moon is called the ____ ______ moon.

six seven.


200

When the Earth blocks the sun from hitting the moon it is a _______ eclipse.

What is Lunar?

200

The Earth rotates in this direction.

What is counterclockwise?

300

Spring and Fall produce shadows that are ______ than Summers and ________ than winters.

What is Longer and Shorter (must be in that order).

300

If Mexico is in Summer, than China is in this season.

What is Summer?

300

When the moon is in the process of gaining illumination we call our cresent and gibbous moon this.

What is Waxing?

300

This moon phase happens when we see a solar eclipse.

What is New Moon?

300

It takes this many days for the Earth to orbit the sun.  Be precise.

What is 365 1/4 days?

400

The longest shadows are produced at what times of the day?

What are sunrise and sunset?

400

If the neither the northern hemisphere of the southern hemisphere are tilted toward or away from the sun, then we are most likely in what 2 seasons?

What is Spring or Fall?

400

The reason why we call the last quarter moon, a last quarter moon is.....

What is because the moon is in the last quarter of its orbit.

400

This moon phase happens when we see a Lunar eclipse.

What is Full Moon?

400

The north pole always points to this.

What is the North Star or Polaris?

500

What causes shadows to be long?

What is indirect sunlight (the sun's rays hit us at an angle instead of straight down on us).

500

The 2 things responsible for Earth having its seasons are....

What are the tilt and its orbit?

500

The reason we see different moon phases each day/night throughout a month is......

What is because the moon orbits the Earth and we see different amounts of light reflecting off the moon as it changes its position in the sky.

500

The reason we do not have a solar and lunar eclipse each month is....

What is because the moon does not orbit the Earth on the same plane the Earth and Sun are on.

500

When the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, where on Earth does the sun's rays hit most directly?  Be specific.

What is the Tropic of Cancer.