Eclipse Solar Total

A solar eclipse only happens during a ________ moon.

• New
• Cresent
• Gibbous
• Full

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Where must you be to see a total solar eclipse?

• a corona
• an orbit
• the moon's shadow
• the earth's shadow

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What is the darkest inner part of the shadow cone called, where a total eclipse can be viewed.

• Total
• Umbra
• Penumbra

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What is the larger outer lighter part of the shadow cone called, where a partial eclipse can be viewed?

• Partial
• Umbra
• Penumbra

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In order to have an eclipse, the Moon, Sun and Earth have to be?

• Below each other
• Above each other
• In alignment

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Which type of eclipse occurs when the Moon comes directly between Earth and the Sun?

• Lunar eclipse
• Solar eclipse

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This image is an example of

• Lunar Eclipse
• Full Moon
• New Moon
• Solar Eclipse

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A solar eclipse only occurs during which moon phase?

• 1st Quarter
• New Moon
• Full Moon
• 3rd Quarter

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During a solar eclipse...

• The sun is blocked by the moon
• The Earth is blocked moon
• The moon is blocked by the sun
• You are blocked

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

• It can be viewed 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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