Solar Eclipse

How can you protect your eyes during solar eclipse?

• a. use dark sunglasses when looking at the sun

• b. use special-purpose solar filters

• c. look at the sun through a camera

• d. use homemade filters or ordinary sunglasses.

What do you call a phenomenon when one celestial body moves in front of another one, obscuring the one further out?

• a. lunar eclipse

• b. solar eclipse

• c. eclipse

• d. epilepsy

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

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

• b. It is dangerous to look at without the proper device

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

• d. You must be within the moon’s umbra to see it.

During a solar eclipse, an observer on the moon, looking at the earth would see?

• a. The sun completely covered by the earth.

• b. Earth completely covered by moon's shadow.

• c. Earth partially covered by moon's shadow.

• d. The sun does not covered the by the earth.

You would see a partial solar eclipse if you were within the Moon’s penumbra.

• True

• False

You must wear your eclipse goggles at all times except during totality due to safety reasons.

• True

• False

Solar eclipses occur during which Moon phase?

• a. New Moon

• b. Waxing Crescent

• c. Waning Crescent

• d. Full Moon

What do you call a phenomenon that occurs when the moon gets between Earth and the sun, and the moon casts a shadow over Earth?

• a. Solar eclipse

• b. Solar panel

• c. Solar flare

• d. Solar radiation

A partial solar eclipse is visible from_______?

• a. within the moon’s umbra

• b. the dark side of the earth

• c. all over the earth

• d. within the moon’s penumbra

A total solar eclipse is visible from_______?

• a. within the moon’s umbra

• b. the dark side of the earth

• c. all over the earth

• d. within the moon’s penumbra