Phases, Eclipses, Seasons

.A total solar eclipse can be seen only by the people in the area of the Earth within the moon's umbra

• true

• false

Earth rotates on its axis about once every year

• true

• false

Night and day on Earth are caused by Earth's revolution around the Sun

• true

• false

The summer solstice occurs in June in the northern hemisphere and in December in the southern hemisphere

• true

• false

Daylight hours are shorter for the hemisphere that is tilted towards the Sun during the solstice

• true

• false

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth's shadow falls on the moon

• true

• false

The phase of the moon that is immediately before the new Moon is?

• waxing crescent

• first quarter

• waning crescent

• third quarter

A _____ occurs when the Moon moves directly between the sun and the earth

• solar eclipse

• lunar eclipse

• waning gibbous

• waxing crescent

The sun's rays strike earth at their northernmost and southernmost positions during _______

• winter and summer solstices

• spring and fall equinoxes

• lunar eclipses

• solar eclipses

The yearly orbit of Earth around the sun is called its _____

• rotation

• ellipse

• revolution

• tilt