Seasons
What are the (2) reasons for the seasons?
What is Earth's revolution and tilt?
How many moon phases are there?
What is 8?
What is the moon's phase during a solar eclipse?
What is new moon?
TRUE OR FALSE: Seasons are caused by Earth’s changing distance from the Sun.
What is FALSE?
Where is the asteroid belt?
What is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
What is the angle of Earth's tilt?
What is 23.5 degrees?
As the moon’s shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is ________.
What is waning?
What is the name for the lighter colored shadow in an eclipse?
What is penumbra?
How long does it take for the Earth to revolve around the sun one time?
What is 365 days (1 year)?
What is a space object called when it lands on earth?
What is meteorite?
When it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere,
it’s __________ in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is winter?
The cycle of the moon lasts about a ______________.
What is about a month (28 to 29 days)?
Why do we NOT have a solar or lunar eclipse each month?
What is because of the moon's tilt (at 5 degrees)?
In order for a lunar or solar eclipse to occur what needs to happen?
What is the Sun, Moon, and Earth must be in a STRAIGHT line?
What is the best estimate of how long ago the universe formed?
What is 13 to 15 billion years ago?
When a hemisphere is experiencing fall, this is because …
What is neither hemisphere is pointed towards or away from the Sun?
How are we able to see the surface of the moon from Earth?
What is the moon reflects sunlight to Earth?
___% of the Moon’s surface is always illuminated by the Sun except during ___.
What is 50% and lunar eclipse?
The ___________ receives the most direct light
throughout the year.
What is the equator?
What two variables affect the force of gravity on an object?
During the June solstice, what season is it in the northern and southern hemispheres?
What is summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere?
What are the phases of the moon where the amount of the lighted side of the moon you see is the same?
What is (1) waxing and waning crescent (2) waxing and waning gibbous (3) first/last (third) quarter?
Why do only small populations of humans on Earth experience a total solar eclipse?
What is they must be in the umbra shadow (which is very small because the moon is very small) to see a total solar eclipse?
Phases of the moon in which the moon appears to be getting larger are referred to as ___________.
What is waxing?
TRUE OR FALSE: Our solar system is located in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
What is FALSE?