Solar Eclipse Quiz: Trivia Questions and Answers
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1. What is the correct alignment during a solar eclipse?
Sun, moon, earth
2. What is the maximum number of solar eclipses that can occur during a calendar year?
5
3. Solar eclipses always occur on ______
New moon
4. What is the average duration of totality in a total solar eclipse?
2 – 3 minutes
5. The same pattern of solar eclipses will repeat every 18 years 11 days 8 hours. This is known as the ______
Saros cycle
6. When did the longest solar eclipse happen?
1955
7. How often does a total solar eclipse occur?
Every 18 months
8. Which type of eclipse happened in August 2017?
It was a total eclipse
9. When do annular eclipses happen?
When the moon is too far from Earth
10. What is the outermost layer of the Sun called?
Photosphere