Just a Phase
The phases in which more of the moon becomes visible in the night sky?
What are the waxing phases?
The moon comes between the Earth and this during a solar eclipse.
What is the sun?
June 22.
Four divisions of the year marked by weather patterns and daylight hours.
What are Seasons?
0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
When you can't see a visible moon in the night sky.
What is the new moon?
When the Earth or moon blocks some of the light from the sun.
What is a partial eclipse?
March 22.
What is the Vernal Equinox?
An almost circular, repeating path around the Sun.
The imaginary line on which the earth rotates.
What is Earth's axis?
What are the first quarter and third quarter moons?
When one celestial body blocks light from reaching another.
What is an eclipse?
September 22.
When the view of the Sun from the Earth is blocked by the Moon.
What is a solar eclipse?
90 degrees North latitude.
What is the North Pole?
The moon phase between first first quarter and full moon.
What is waxing Gibbous?
When the Earth or Moon fully blocks light from the sun.
What is a total eclipse?
December 22.
What is the winter solstice?
When the Moon moves into Earth's Shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
23 degrees North latitude.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The number of of days it takes for the moon to make one full cycle.
What is 29.5 days?
Why we don't have eclipses every month.
What is the tilt of the moons orbit?
The amount of sunlight that strikes a given surface.
What is Solar flux?
Imaginary lines that run East to West to measure the distance North or South from the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
66.5 degrees south latitude.