Read each statement carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. What do you call the astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical is
temporarily covered, either by passing into the shadow of another body or by
having another body pass between it and the person watching it?
a. eclipse
b. meteor shower
c. comets
d. shooting star
2. What do you need for an eclipse to occur?
a. the sun
b. the moon and the sun
c. Earth, the moon, and the sun
d. the Earth
3. What kind of eclipse when the moon’s shadow crosses the Earth’s surface?
a. lunar eclipse
b. solar eclipse
c. sun eclipse
d. moon eclipse
4. What kind of eclipse when the Earth comes between the sun and the moon?
a. lunar eclipse
b. solar eclipse
c. sun eclipse
d. moon eclipse
5. What type of eclipse occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth don’t line up
completely?
a. total solar eclipse
b. partial solar eclipse
c. annular solar eclipse
d. penumbral solar eclipse
6. When a lunar eclipse occurs, what phase should the moon be in?
a. waning
b. waxing
c. half moon
d. full moon

7. What type of solar eclipse when Moon completely covers our view of the Sun?
a. penumbral eclipse
b. partial solar eclipse
c. total solar eclipse
d. annular solar eclipse
8. What type of solar eclipse when the Moon is at its farthest distance from the Earth?
a. penumbral eclipse
b. partial solar eclipse
c. total solar eclipse
d. annular solar eclipse
9. What type of lunar eclipse when the moon passes through the Earth’s penumbra?
a. penumbral eclipse
b. partial lunar eclipse
c. total lunar eclipse
d. annular lunar eclipse
10. What type of lunar eclipse when the moon passes through the Earth’s umbra?
a. penumbral eclipse
b. partial lunar eclipse
c. total lunar eclipse
d. annular lunar eclipse
11. What type of lunar eclipse when the whole moon disappears as it passes through
the Earth’s umbra shadow?
a. penumbral eclipse
b. partial lunar eclipse
c. total lunar eclipse
d. annular lunar eclipse
12. What are the two shadows costs by the moon?
a. partial and penumbra
b. annular and penumbra
c. umbra and penumbra
d. umbra and partial
13. What are the two events need to happen during total solar eclipse?
I. The phase of the moon must be a new moon.
II. The phase of the moon must be a full moon.
III. The moon must be in the right position, directly in the line of sight between the
Earth and the Sun.
IV. The moon must be in the right position, directly in the line of sight between the
Earth and the Sun.

a. I and II
b. II and III
c. I and III
d. II and IV
14. Which of the two shadows cast by the moon that becomes smaller as it reaches
the Earth?
a. penumbral
b. annular
c. umbra
d. penumbra
15. Which of the two shadows cast by the moon that becomes larger as it reaches
the Earth?
a. umbra
b. penumbral
c. penumbra
d. annular
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