Moon and phases

What is the name of the day that has the greatest amount of daylight (Northern Hemisphere)?

• Summer Solstice
• Fall Equinox
• Spring Equinox
• Winter Solstice

What is the 3rd phase of the Moon cycle as seen here in this image?

• First Quarter
• Full Moon
• New Moon
• Third Quarter

What is the 8th phase of the Moon cycle as seen here in this image?

• Waning Gibbous
• Waxing Gibbous
• Waxing Crescent
• Waning Crescent

What is a solar eclipse?

• When the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow.
• When the Moon's shadow is on the Earth.

What is the smaller, darker part of the shadow called in an eclipse?

• Penumbra
• Penumbrella
• Umbrella
• Umbra

What type of tides would this arrangement of Earth-Moon-Sun create?

• neap tide
• spring tide
• new moon tide
• full moon tide

What type of tide would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• full moon tide
• new moon tide
• neap tide
• spring tide

What is the name of the star closest to the Celestial North Pole?

• Rigel
• Vega
• Polaris
• Orion

The Nebular Theory is:

• A theory on how the Milky Way galaxy was formed
• A theory on how the universe was formed
• A theory on how the solar system will be destroyed
• A theory on how the solar system was formed

Began a new era of astronomy when he concluded that the Sun was the center of the universe.

• Aristotle
• Isaac Newton
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus