General
The scientific shape of the Earth's orbit?
What is an ellipse?
A lunar eclipse can only occur during this moon phase
What is a full moon?
Moon phase when the moon is completely lit
What is a full moon?
The season when the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
What is summer?
The imaginary line through Earth
What is the axis?
A solar eclipse can only occur during this moon phase
What is a new moon?
Moon phase when the moon is completely dark
What is a new moon?
The southern hemisphere season when it is spring in the northern hemisphere
What is fall?
The degrees of the Earth's tilt
What is 23.5 degrees?
When the Earth's shadow covers the moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
The term used when the moon is getting darker
What is waning?
The season when the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
What is winter?
This takes one year for the Earth to do
What is one revolution around the sun?
When the moon covers the sun
What is a solar eclipse?
Term used when the moon is getting lighter?
What is waxing?
The Earth is closest to the sun in this month
What is January?
This causes day and night
What is the Earth's rotation?
When one celestial body passes through he shadow of another
What is an eclipse?
The moon phases that occur when the Earth, sun, and moon are at a 90 degree angle
What is the 1st or 3rd (last) quarter moon?
This is pointing directly or indirectly at the Earth