Generation Genius Eclipses

What factor limits the number of eclipses per year?

• Distance between the moon and the earth

• Tilt of the moon's orbit around the earth

• Distance between the earth and the sun

• Tilt of the earth's axis of rotation

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What type of eclipse occurs when the moon blocks the sun's light and cast a shadow on earth?

• solar

• lunar

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What type of eclipse occurs when the earth's shadow is cast on a full moon?

• solar

• lunar

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When does a lunar eclipse occur?

• At night

• When the moon's shadow is on the earth

• when the moon comes between the sun and earth

• During the day

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Which of the following is not true about a total solar eclipse?

• It can be viewed once a year from every spot on earth

• It is dangerous to look at without the proper device

• When it happens, the moon blocks all of the sun except the corona

• You must be within the moon's umbra to see it

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What do we call the sun's outer atmosphere that you see during a solar eclipse?

• an umbra

• a corona

• an orbit

• a shadow

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A Solar Eclipse occurs when :

• The earth blocks the sunlight from reaching the moon

• The moon blocks sunlight from reaching the earth

• The sun blocks its light from reaching the Earth

• The sun does not come out during the day

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During the solar eclipse, an observer on earth standing in the moon's umbra would see which of the following?

• A total solar eclipse

• A total lunar eclipse

• A partial solar eclipse

• A partial lunar eclipse

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If these three bodies are lined up with each other, what would this diagram represent ?????

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

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What is the correct alignment during a solar eclipse???

• sun,earth,moon

• earth,sun,moon

• sun,moon,earth

• moon,earth,sun

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