Eclipses

Using this diagram, answer the following question:

What is the name of the eclipse in the above diagram?

• total lunar eclipse

• total solar eclipse

• partial lunar eclipse

• partial solar eclipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Using the diagram, what is the name of Part (A) of this eclipse?

• penumbra

• umbra

• annular eclipse

• partial eclipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Using this diagram, what is the name of Part (B) of the eclipse?

• penumbra

• annular eclipse

• umbra

• partial eclipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What type of eclipse is pictured in this diagram?

• total lunar eclipse

• partial solar eclipse

• total solar eclipse

• partial lunar eclipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What type of eclipse is pictured in this diagram?

• total solar eclipse

• partial lunar eclipse

• total lunar eclipse

• partial solar eclipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

True or False:

A total lunar eclipse is an eclipse in which the new moon temporarily blocks part of the Sun’s disk; occurs when the new moon, Earth, and the Sun are not completely aligned and the umbra of the Moon’s shadow falls into space and viewers on Earth are located in the penumbra of the Moon’s shadow.

• false

• true

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The umbra the inner, darker part of a shadow.

• false

• true

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The blocking of the Sun’s light that occurs during a new moon when the Moon’s shadow falls on Earth is called a lunar eclipse.

• false

• true

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Using this diagram, what part of the eclipse is #1?

• Earth

• Moon

• Sun

• umbra

• penumbra

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Using the diagram, what part of the eclipse is #3?

• umbra

• Sun

• Earth

• penumbra

• Moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1