Earth Systems
Earth in the Solar System, Galaxy, and Universe
Earth's Orbit and the Seasons
Phases pf the Moon
Eclipses
Calendars
100
The Rigid, mostly solid rock, outer layer of earth – The earth’s crust
What is the lithosphere?
100
This is a massive system of stars that are bound together by gravitational force.
What is a galaxy?
100
The northernmost point on Earth where the sun can be seen directly overhead.
What is the tropic of cancer?
100
This is what causes the phases of the moon as they appear from Earth.
What is Earth's shadow?
100
The kind of eclipse that happens when the Earth blocks the Sun from the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
100
This calendar does not account for the days less than 365.24 at any time which causes their holidays to change seasons.
What is the Islamic Calendar?
100
These are the 4 primary systems of the earth.
Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere
100
The inner 4 planets of our solar system are mostly made of this.
What is rock?
100
The number of days it takes Earth to orbit the Sun.
What is 365.24?
100
The phase of the moon as it appears to be "growing".
What is waxing?
100
This is being blocked during both kinds of eclipses.
What is the sun?
100
This calendar was used by the Jews in Biblical times and also modern Israel.
What is the Hebrew Calendar?
100
This part of the lithosphere consists of mostly light-colored granite.
What is the continental crust?
100
This model of the universe said that Earth is at the center of the universe, and everything orbits the earth in a perfect circle.
What is the Geocentric model of the Universe?
100
The day of year when there is equal amount of daylight between the winter and summer soltice. (Must be the technical name for it)
What is the Vernal Equinox? I will also accept March 22.
100
This is the way the moon revolves around the earth.
What is counter-clockwise?
100
The reason the only part of the Earth along the path of the umbra is able to see the total solar eclipse.
What is the small size of the moon and it's shadow compared to Earth?
100
According to the Hebrew Calendar, when does a new day begin?
What is when the sun sets?
100
This system depends upon all the others for oxygen, water, and nutrients, and a place to live.
What is the biosphere?
100
This is the zone in our solar system where liquid can exist on the surface of a planet.
What is the habitable zone?
100
The time when the earth’s axis points neither toward nor away from the sun.
What is an equinox?
100
The phase of the moon when the earth completely block the sun's light.
What is a new moon?
100
The kind of eclipse when the moon blocks the Sun from the Earth.
What is a solar Eclipse?
100
According to a true Islamic calendar, when is the first day of a new month counted?
What is at the first sighting of the waxing cresent moon?
100
This is the solid form of the hydrosphere.
What is ice and snow?
100
The Heliocentric Model of the Solar System said that ___________ is at the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
100
The Earth's axis points _______ from the sun in the northern hemisphere during the winter solstice.
What is away.
100
What is the Waning Gibbous phase?
100
This is the darkest part of a shadow that causes a total solar eclipse.
What is the umbra?
100
This calendar claimed 325.25 years in a year, had a leap year every 4 years, and historically began counting years at the start of a new empire until about AD 525.
What is the Julian Calendar?
100
This system can be found within the other systems of the earth.
What is the biosphere?
100
All of space, time, matter, and energy compose this system.
What is the universe?
100
These two things cause the range or difference in heat between the seasons.
What are the length of time the sun appears in the sky, and the concentration of light in an area?
100
What is the waxing crescent?
100
This is the color the moon appears during a lunar eclipse.
What is red?
100
Fixed holidays are based on this western calendar.
What is the Gregorian Calendar?