Astronomy Describing Eclipses of the Sun and Moon?

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1. A solar eclipse that occurs when the new moon is too far from Earth to completely cover the sun can be either a partial solar eclipse or a(n) _______

2. Anyone looking from the night side of Earth can, in principle, see a(n) _____________

3. During some lunar eclipses, the moon's appearance changes only slightly, because it passes only through the part of Earth's shadow called the ________

4. A(n) __________ can occur only when the moon is new and has an angular size larger than the Sun in the sky

5. A partial lunar eclipse beings when the moon first touches the Earth's _________

6. A point at which the moon crosses Earth's orbital plane is called a(n) _________

options
a. node
b.umbra
c.annular eclipse
d.penumbra
e. total lunar eclipse
f. total solar eclipse
 
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