Eclipses
When the moon totally blocks out the sun
What is a total (solar) eclipse?
The reason seasons are caused.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
The number of moon phases there are.
What are 8 moon phases?
The partial or total blocking of light of one celestial object by another.
What is an eclipse?
Today is the 2nd day of a full moon. The moon will be this in 8 days.
What is the first day of a waning crescent?
The order of the celestial bodies during a lunar eclipse.
What is the Sun, Earth and Moon?
If the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth is pointed toward the Sun we will have 1 of these 2 seasons.
What is Summer or Spring?
The phase of the moon cycle after waxing gibbous moon.
What is a full moon?
The phase of the moon that occurs between the new moon and the full moon, when the moon appears to grow larger each night
What is a waxing moon phase?
Today is a new moon. The moon will be this in 15 days.
What is the first day of a waning gibbous?
The moon phase during a solar eclipse.
What is a new moon?
If the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth is pointed away from the Sun we will have 1 of these 2 seasons.
What is Winter or Fall?
The phase of the moon after a new moon.
What is a waxing crescent moon?
The movement of one object around another.
What is a revolution?
What is a waxing gibbous moon?
The order of the celestial bodies during a solar eclipse.
What is the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth?
The cause of Earth no longer having seasons?
What is the Earth no longer being tilted.
A moon that is more than half full.
What is a gibbous moon?
A slant of the Earth's axis at 23.5 degrees from its vertical.
What is the Earth's tilt?
Today is a last quarter moon. In 15 days it will be this moon.
What are the last days of a waxing crescent moon?
The moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is a full moon?
Our location on one half of the Earth. North or South direction.
What is the Northern or Southern Hemisphere?
The phase of the moon before waning crescent.
What is a last quarter (half moon)?
This happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
Today is a new moon. In 29.5 days it will be this moon.
What is a new moon?