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Solar Eclipses

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    A quiz for my Grade 9 Science students
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  • What is the general term for an event where one celestial body blocks the light from another?
    Eclipse
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  • What type of eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth?
    Solar Eclipse
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  • What is the main source of light that illuminates the Moon?
    Sun
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  • What is the nearly circular path that the Earth travels around the Sun called?
    Orbit
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  • What is the term for the arrangement of the Sun, Moon, and Earth in a straight line?
    Alignment
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  • What is the dark, inner part of a shadow where all light is blocked?
    Umbra
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  • If you are standing in the umbra of the Moon's shadow, what kind of eclipse do you see?
    Total Solar Eclipse
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  • What is the lighter, outer part of a shadow where only some light is blocked?
    Penumbra
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  • If you are standing in the penumbra of the Moon's shadow, what kind of eclipse do you see?
    Partial Solar Eclipse
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  • What is the name for the Sun’s outer atmosphere, which looks like a "pearly white crown" during a total eclipse?
    Corona
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  • What feature of the Moon's path is the main reason eclipses don't happen every month?
    Tilted Orbit
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  • What type of eclipse creates a "ring of fire" because the Moon is too far from Earth to completely cover the Sun?
    Annular Eclipse
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  • What type of eclipse occurs when the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow?
    Lunar Eclipse
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  • What do we call a dark area or shape produced by a body blocking rays of light?
    Shadow
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  • The Moon completes one of these around Earth in about a month.
    Orbit
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  • What is the name for Earth's natural satellite?
    Moon
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