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Which celestial object is responsible for blocking the light of the sun during
i.a solar eclipse and ii.a lunar eclipse.

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  2. What is bioluminescence?

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  8. How does the nature of a shadow depend on the light source?

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  9. How much light does the umbra region of a shadow receive from the sour...

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  11. Label the figure.

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  12. What are the characteristics of an image formed by a pinhole camera?

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  13. What determines the size of a pinhole camera image?

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  14. Name the type of eclipses shown in the Figures 1 and 2.

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  15. Why do these objects form shadows?

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  16. When does a lunar eclipse take place?

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  17. In which region of the Earth's shadow is the moon, when a total lunar ...

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  20. When does a solar eclipse take place?

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