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Day and Night Seasons Lunar Cycle Eclipses Tides 10 20 30 40 50

Question 1 - 10 Number of hours in a day.

Answer 1 – 10 What is 24.

Question 1 - 20 This motion causes the Earth to have day and night.

Answer 1 – 20 What is rotation?

Question 1 - 30 The direction the Earth rotates.

Answer 1 – 30 What is counterclockwise.

Question 1 - 40 The Earth spins on this imaginary line.

Answer 1 – 40 What is its axis.

Question 1 - 50 This would happen if the Earth rotated faster.

Answer 1 – 50 What is the Earth’s days and nights would be shorter.

Question 2 - 10 What day provides the Northern Hemisphere with the shortest amount of light

Answer 2 – 10 What is the Winter Solstice?

Question 2 - 20 What causes the Earth to have seasons?

Answer 2 – 20 What is the Earth’s tilt?

Question 2 - 30 The degree of the Earth’s tilt.

Answer 2 – 30 What is 23.5 degrees?

Question 2 - 40 The two days the Earth has nearly equal amounts of daylight.

Answer 2 – 40 What is the Spring and Fall Equinox.

Question 2 - 50 Today is the winter Solstice or the first day of winter in the northern Hemisphere. It is this day in the Southern Hemisphere.

Answer 2 – 50 What is the Summer Solstice or the first day of summer.

Question 3 - 10 It was this event that formed the moon.

Answer 3 – 10 What is the impact of a Mars sized planet?

Question 3 - 20 Today’s lunar phase.

Answer 3 – 20 What is Third Quarter or waning gibbous.

Question 3 - 30 The phase of moon we can not see because it is in line with the sun.

Answer 3 – 30 What is the new moon.

Question 3 - 40 The name given to a phase of a growing moon phase.

Answer 3 – 40 What is waxing?

Question 3 - 50 This causes us to see different shapes of the moon.

Answer 3 – 50 What is the moon revolves around the Earth and different amounts of sunlight reflecting off the moon

Question 4 - 10 The darkest portion of an eclipse.

Answer 4 – 10 What is the umbra?

Question 4 - 20 The eclipse when the moon blocks the sun.

Answer 4 – 20 What is a solar eclipse?

Question 4 - 30 The eclipse caused when the Earth cast a shadow on the moon.

Answer 4 – 30 What is a lunar eclipse?

Question 4 - 40 The moon phase that occurs during the lunar eclipse.

Answer 4 – 40 What is the full moon.

Question 4 - 50 The phase of moon that occurs during a solar eclipse.

Answer 4 – 50 What is a new moon.

Question 5 - 10 The name given to the rising and falling of sea levels.

Answer 5 – 10 What is are tides?

Question 5 - 20 The force from the Sun and Moon causing tides.

Answer 5 – 20 What is gravity?

Question 5 - 30 The name of tides that cause the highest tides.

Answer 5 – 30 What is the spring tides?

Question 5 - 40 Number of high tides each day.

Answer 5 – 40 What is two?

Question 5 - 50 The two phases of moon that can cause the highest tides.

Answer 5 – 50 What are new and full moons?