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Seasons
Phases
Eclipses
Tides
Miscellaneous
100
A result of the Earth's tilt on its axis & revolution around the sun
What are seasons?
100
The amount of the moon illuminated by the sun at any given time.
What is half?
100
Occurs when Earth's shadow falls on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
100
Number of tides that typically occur each day.
What is 4?
100
The spinning of an object on its axis
What is rotation?
200
Neither the northern nor southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun; equal hours of day & night
What is an equinox
200
The moon phase in which all of the lighted side of the moon is seen.
What is a full moon?
200
Eclipse that occurs when the moon is between the Earth & the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
Tide occurring when high tides are highest and low tides are lowest.
What is a spring tide?
200
Earth's yearly orbit around the sun
What is a revolution?
300
The point at which the sun reaches its greatest distance north of the equator
What is summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere?
300
The moon can not be seen during this phase.
What is a new moon?
300
Eclipse that occurs only during a new moon.
What is a solar eclipse?
300
Tide occurring when low tides are at their highest point and high tides are at their lowest point.
What is a neap tide?
300
Earth orbits the sun on the plane of ___
What is the ecliptic?
400
The season experienced in the southern hemisphere when it's winter in the northern hemisphere.
What is summer?
400
Phases occurring when less & less of the illuminated side of the moon is visible.
What are waning phases?
400
The darkest portion of the shadow during an eclipse.
What is the umbra?
400
Phase of the moon occurring during neap tides.
What is 1st or 3rd quarter?
400
Length of time it takes the earth to revolve around the sun
What is 365 1/4 days?
500
The season experienced in the southern hemisphere when it is tilted towards the sun.
What is summer for the southern hemisphere and winter for the northern hemisphere?
500
The lunar phase occurring just after a full moon.
What is waning gibbous?
500
Eclipse most likely to be seen.
What is a lunar eclipse?
500
The cause of tides
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
500
The reason the same side of the moon is always visible to Earth
What is the result of the period of rotation & revolution of the moon being equal?