Moon Phases
This is when the moon is not visible from Earth at all.
What is the New Moon?
Observations of the sun's position help determine the best times for this agricultural activity.
What is planting?
This natural phenomenon divides the year into four parts due to Earth’s tilt.
What are seasons?
Our name of the galaxy.
What is the milky way?
This type of calendar is based on the phases of the Moon.
What is a lunar calendar?
This moon phase looks like a fully lit circle.
What is the Full Moon?
This part of Earth helps create auroras by interacting with solar particles.
What is the magnetic field?
The day with the most daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.
What is a black hole?
How many days on a rocket ship does it take to get to the moon?
What is 3 days?
The full moon cycle takes about this long.
What is 29.5 days?
This eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The day with equal daylight and darkness.
What is an equinox?
What is a sun?
What is a giant, super-hot ball of glowing gas at the center of our solar system, not a solid object.
Which planet is known as the ringed planet?
What is Saturn?
The name for the 13th moon.
What is a blue moon?
These colorful lights appear when solar particles collide with gases in Earth’s atmosphere.
What are auroras or Northern Lights?
The two types of solstices are these.
What are the summer and winter solstices?
This is a natural object in space that orbits a planet and does not produce its light.
What is a moon?
This is the name for a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky.
What is a constellation?
Half of the Moon's face is lit, and it's the right half. This phase is one-quarter of the way through the lunar month.
What is the First Quarter Moon?
This part of Earth helps create auroras by interacting with solar particles.
What is the magnetic field?
This happens around March and September and marks the start of spring and fall.
What is an equinox?
A group of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity, like the Milky Way.
What is a galaxy?
There are this many planets in our solar system. Can you name them all?
What are the 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?