Solar System
Moon Phases
Lunar Phases
Vocabulary
Tides
100
This planet is closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
100
Fill in the blank: "The moon changes _______ to display different phases."
What is Position/Angle?
100
The moon must be in this phase for a solar eclipse.
What is New Moon?
100
This means that the light is shrinking.
What is Waning?
100
This MAINLY causes tides on Earth.
What is Moon's Gravity?
200
This planet is known as the "Red" Planet.
What is Mars?
200
Name the 4 in between phases of the moon.
What is Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Crescent, Waning Gibbous?
200
The moon must be in this phase to be in a lunar eclipse?
What is full moon?
200
This means that the line between the light and dark side of the moon.
What is terminator?
200
This is why the Moon affects tides more than the Sun.
What is the proximity/ how close the Moon is to Earth?
300
This planet has the most moons.
What is Saturn?
300
This phase shows the right half of the Moon lit.
What is First Quarter Moon?
300
This phase comes after this one:
What is Waxing Gibbous?
300
This means the light is growing.
What is Waxing?
300
This is how many high tides happen each day.
What is two?
400
This planet has rings made mostly of ice and rock.
What is Saturn?
400
This is how long one full lunar cycle is. (New Moon to New Moon)
What is 29.5 days?
400
This phase comes 3 phases after this one:
What is Full Moon?
400
This means the side of the moon lit by the Sun?
What is Illumination/Illuminated Side?
400
This is how long a lunar day is.
What is 24 hours and 50 minutes?
500
List all the planets from the Sun, starting with the closest to the farthest. *MUST BE IN ORDER TO GET POINTS*
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
500
This is all phases of the Moon, starting with the New Moon.
What is New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, and Waning Crescent?
500
This diagram is an example this kind of eclipse.
What is a solar eclipse?
500
This is why eclipses do not happen every month.
What is the moon's orbit is slightly tilted?
500
These are the moon phases that all affect the tides on Earth.
What is new, full, first quarter, and third quarter moons?