Misc.
Seasons
Eclipses
Moon Phases
Vocab
100

This is the length of the lunar cycle.

What is 29.5 days?

100

A period of the year identified by changes in hours of daylight and weather

What is a season?

100

The two types of eclipses.

What are lunar and solar?

100

The word for describing the moon getting bigger.

What is waxing?

100

The kind of light received at the equator

What is direct sunlight?

200

Amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the sun

What is 365 and a quarter days?

200

The reason some countries never gets cold

What is being close to the equater?

200

When the moon passes exactly between Earth and the Sun

What is a solar eclipse?

200

The word for describing the moon getting smaller.

What is waning?

200

The force that keeps our Sun, Earth, and Moon system in orbit

What is gravity?

300

Ms. Fiala's dog's name is

What is Bambi?

300

Winter in the United States means summer in

What is Australia?

300

The name of the darkest part of a shadow behind the Earth

What is the Umbra?

300

The name of the smallest moon shape

What is a crescent moon?

300

Spinning on an axis.

What is rotation?

400

Two countries that are in the Northern Hemisphere

What is Canada, United States, Russia, etc.?

400

The tropic of capricorn lies here...

What is the Northern Hemisphere?

400

What is the partially shadowed area behind the earth during an eclipse?

What is the penumbra?

400

Number of phases a moon goes through

What is eight?

400

A day of the year when Earth's North Pole is leaning either toward the Sun or away from the Sun.

What is a solstice?

500

The difference between latitude and longitude...

Longitude runs north pole to south pole. 

Latitude runs like a belt

500

The length of day and night changes as the year passes because of this

What is the tilt of the Earth?

500

The frequency of total lunar eclipses

every 2-3 years

500

The phase that occurs halfway between the full and new moon

What is third-quarter moon?

500

The path and length of time one object takes to travel around another object

What is orbit?