Astronomy
What is the name of the star that the Earth's northern axis points toward?
What is Polaris?
What happens to sunlight as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere at sunrise and sunset?
What is it appears yellower, oranger, and redder?
How long does it take for the Earth to rotate about its axis?
What is one day?
Why are seasonal patterns opposite in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What is due to the tilt of Earth's axis and sunlight angle?
What happens during a solar eclipse?
What is the Moon casts a shadow on the Earth?
What celestial body appears to rise in the eastern sky and set in the west?
What is the Sun and Moon?
What is a rainbow formed from?
What is light interacting with water?
How does the Earth orbit the Sun?
What is once every year?
What happens to the angle of the Sun's elevation throughout the year?
What is it changes regularly and cyclically?
Why do we not see eclipses every month?
What is because the Moon's orbit is tilted?
How do the stars in the Northern Hemisphere appear to move around the North Star? (What direction does the Earth rotate?)
What is counterclockwise?
What color does the atmosphere appear during the day from space?
What is bluish?
What is the angle of Earth's axis's tilt?
What is about 23.5 degrees?
What causes higher temperatures in certain seasons?
What is higher solar elevation resulting in more direct sunlight?
What color does the Moon appear to be during a lunar eclipse?
What is the Moon turns reddish?
What is one planet that appears in the sky like stars but moves differently?
What is Venus?
When light travels through a longer path in the atmosphere, what happens to its brightness?
What is it dims slightly?
What is the effect of the Earth's rotation on the visible stars in the night sky?
What is they appear to move in a circular path?
What do we observe about daylight hours during different seasons?
What is they change in a predictable pattern?
How does the brightness of the Moon change during a lunar eclipse?
What is it becomes dimmer but remains visible?
What is the primary force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?
What is gravity?
Which color on the visible light spectrum has the longest wavelength?
What is red?
How do we visualize complex systems like Earth's movements?
What is by viewing from multiple perspectives?
What phenomenon occurs during the summer and winter solstices?
What is a reversal in day length and sun angle?
What creates the shadow during a solar eclipse?
What is the Moon being positioned between the Sun and Earth?