Rotation and Revolution
The movement of earth on its axis.
What is rotation
When an object turns on an axis.
What is rotation
This is how many days have passed between a new moon and another new moon
What is 28 days.
This is the star closest to earth.
What is our sun
The time when a solar eclipse is visible
What is daytime
This an object around another object in space
What is revolution
This is how long it takes for the Earth to make one revolution around the Sun.
What is 365 days
This moon phase comes right after the new moon.
What is waxing cresent.
These are a group of stars forming a pattern
What are constellations
This is what happens to the moon when there is a solar eclipse.
What is the moon passes between the sun and earth
This is what happens to the sun from early morning to noon.
What is it appears higher in the sky
What causes the phases of the moon?
Moon's rotation around the earth
This is how often we see a new moon.
What is every 28 days
This star seems to be one of the brightest at nighttime and points towards the northern parts of earth
What is the north star
This is what happens to the earth during a lunar eclipse.
What is the earth is in between the sun and the moon
What is the in the western part of the sky
This is the direction that all of the planets move around the Sun
What is counter-clockwise
These 2 things look like they are the same size to us, even though they are not.
What is the Sun and Moon
Cell phones are smaller.
TV screens are clearer.
Satellites have improved communication
This is how NASA's research has helped people around the world.
What is satellites have improved communication.
Rudy sent a map of constellations he sees in Florida to his cousin living in the Southern Hemisphere. This is why his cousin could not see the constellations.
What is the stars on the map can only be seen from the Northern Hemisphere
This occurs about every month
What is the moon's revolution or orbit around the earth; or a complete moon phase cycle.
This is when the moon travels directly behind earth and into earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse
This is how long before our sun becomes a red giant.
What is approximately 5 billion years
When the northern hemisphere is closest to the sun it is what season there?
What is summer