Part 1: Check Your Understanding

1. What is a solar eclipse?

The Moon moves between the Sun and Earth.

Earth moves between the Sun and Moon.

The Sun moves between Earth and the Moon.

2. Which object blocks some of the Sun’s light during a solar eclipse?

Earth

The Moon

A star

3. What is the dark central part of the Moon’s shadow called?

The umbra

The orbit

The atmosphere

4. Which statement is true?

A solar eclipse happens during the daytime.

A solar eclipse can be viewed safely with ordinary sunglasses.

Special eclipse-viewing glasses protect your eyes.

Part 2: Explain and Apply

5. Complete the sentence: During a solar eclipse, the Sun, Moon and Earth are nearly in a straight __________.

6. Why can people in some places see a total solar eclipse while people in other places cannot?

7. Describe one safe way to observe a solar eclipse.

8. Put these objects in order from left to right during a solar eclipse: Earth, Moon, Sun.

9. Draw and label the Sun, Moon and Earth in the correct positions for a solar eclipse. Add an arrow to show the Moon’s shadow.

10. Write one interesting fact you learnt about solar eclipses.