The Earth
The Earth rotates clockwise around the Sun
What is False
The order of the Sun, Earth, and Moon during a Solar Eclipse.
What is the Sun, Moon, Earth.
True or False. The Moon does not produce its own light.
What is True?
Number of days it takes Earth to complete one revolution around the Sun.
What is 365.25 days.
The phase of the Moon during a Lunar Eclipse.
What is a Full Moon.
What is the name and shape of the galaxy that contains Earth?
What is the Milky Way Galaxy
What do the terms waxing and waning mean in relation to the moon phases?
When the phases are said to be waxing, the visible portion of the moon seems to be getting larger. When they are waning, the visible part seems to be getting smaller. The moon waxes and wanes from right to left.
Causes day and night on Earth.
What is the rotation of the Earth
When the moon moves through Earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
A chunk of rock from outer space that burns up in the atmosphere.
What is a meteor.
Which Moon phase comes after the New Moon.
What is waxing crescent?
The force that keeps Earth in orbit around the Sun
What is gravity.
The darkest part of the shadow cast on the Earth during a Solar Eclipse.
What is the Umbra?
Between which two planets is the asteroid belt
What is Mars and Jupiter?
The time it takes for the moon to complete one rotation, is also the time it takes for the moon to complete one revolution around the Earth.
What is 29.5 days?
A natural satellite of Earth
The Moon
The type of Eclipse where the sun's light is completely blocked by the moon.
What is a total Solar Eclipse.
The eight planets in our solar system, in order of their distance from the Sun (starting with the closest)
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
When more of the moon is visible(greater than half) in a given week. This phase occurs before and after a full moon.
What is a gibbous phase?