Seasons
Eclipses
Moon Phases
Tides
Past Units
100
Season Northern Hemisphere is experiencing.
What is summer?
100
The name of the darkest part of a shadow.
What is the umbra?
100
Name this moon phase.
What is a waxing crescent?
100
The main cause of Earth's tides.
What is the moon's gravity?
100
The cause of waves and surface currents.
What is wind blowing across the ocean?
200
The date that spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is March 21st?
200
Phase the moon must be in for a lunar eclipse to occur.
What is a full moon?
200
Name this moon phase.
What is a 3rd quarter moon?
200
Position moon must be in for spring tides to occur.
What are positions A and E?
200
Temperature and humidity of maritime tropical air mass.
What is humid and warm?
300
The amount of daylight and darkness during an equinox.
What is 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness?
300
Phase the moon must be in for a solar eclipse to occur.
What is a new moon?
300
The moon phase at position 4.
What is a waxing gibbous?
300
A tide with the maximum tidal range caused when the sun, moon, and Earth are aligned.
What is a spring tide?
300
The effect freezing and evaporation have on salinity.
What is an increase on salinity?
400
The degree Earth's tilt would be if we had no seasonal changes.
What is 0 degrees?
400
The type of eclipse shown.
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
The cause of the moon's phases.
What is the changing positions of the sun, moon, and Earth?
400
A tide with the minimal tidal range caused when the sun, moon, and Earth are at right angles to each other.
What is a neap tide?
400
The hottest planet in our solar system because of its "runaway greenhouse effect".
What is Venus?
500
The season the Northern Hemisphere is having at position Z.
What is winter?
500
The reason eclipses do not happen every new and full moon.
What is the 5 degree tilt of the moon's orbit?
500
The moon phase shown in position F.
What is a waning gibbous?
500
The points in the diagram where low tides will occur.
What are B and D?
500
The coldest layer of Earth's atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?