Moon
Earth
Sun
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
100

The first moon phase

What is New Moon?

100

What the Earth rotates on

What is Axis?

100

What the Earth revolves around

What is the Sun?

100

The changing appearances of the Moon as seen from Earth

What are Moon Phases?

100

The spinning of Earth on its axis

What is Rotation?

200

When the Moon has no dark appearance

What is a Full Moon?

200

How long does Earth's rotation take?

What is 24 hours/1 day?

200

A winter solstice is the ________ day of the year

What is Shortest?

200

When the Moon's lighted side becomes smaller

What is Waning?

200

When less than 1/2 of the Moon is lit up

What is a Crescent?

300

How long does the Lunar Cycle take?

What is 27.5/29.5 days?

300

What does Earth's rotation cause?

What is Day and Night?

300

A summer solstice is the ______ day of the year

What is Longest?

300

When the Moon blocks the Sun from reaching the Earth

What is Solar Eclipse?

300

When the Moon's lighted side becomes smaller

What is Waning?

400

Who first hypothesized that the moon is a sphere?

What are Sailors?

400

What does Earth's revolution cause?

What are Seasons?

400

In an equinox, the daylight and nighttime hours are 

What is the Same?

400

When the Moon, Sun, and Earth are aligned in their orbits

What is an Eclipse?

400

When the Earth temporarily blocks Sunlight from reaching the Moon

What is Lunar Eclipse?

500

How many times a year does the Moon go through all its phases?

What is 13 times?

500

People used to think the Earth was ____ and the ______ of the universe

What is Flat and Center?

500

A solstice is the day when the sun...

What is Reaches its greatest distance North or South of the equator?

500

The point when the Sun is the greatest distance from Earth

What is a Solstice?

500

When the Sun is directly over the Equator

What is an Equinox?