Stars
Time/names/size
Shadows/Movements
Cause/Effect
Vocabulary
100
A large luminous ball of hot gases undergoing nuclear fussion.
What is a star?
100
The time it takes Earth to rotate on its axis.
What is 1 day or 24 hours?
100
The cause of shadows.
What is an object blocking light?
100
When the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun and the southern hemisphere is tilted away.
What is summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere?
100
The Sun, planets, and all objects that orbit the Sun.
What is the solar system?
200
The classification of our Sun.
What is a yellow dwarf?
200
The time it takes for Earth to travel around the Sun once.
What is 1 year or 365 days?
200
The force that causes objects to fall towards Earth.
What is gravity?
200
The reason the Sun appears to move from East to West across the sky.
What is the Earth's rotation?
200
One complete turn on an object's axis.
What is a rotation(rotate)?
300
The biggest and brightest star in our sky.
What is the Sun?
300
The name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
300
The shape and direction of shadows at midday (noon).
What is short and directly below the object creating the shadow?
300
The reason the Moon changes phases throughout the month.
What is the revolution of the Moon around the Earth changes the area receiving sunlight?
300
One complete trip of an object around another object.
What is revolution (revolve)?
400
The primary source of energy on Earth, without it the Earth would be cold and dark.
What is the Sun?
400
The approximate number of Earths that can fit in the Sun.
What is 1,000,000 Earths?
400
The shape and direction of shadows in the morning and evening.
What is long and pointed away from the Sun?
400
Causes night and day.
What is the rotation of Earth on its axis?
400
The path an object takes around another object.
What is an orbit?
500
The reason stars are different colors.
What is surface temperature?
500
How long it takes for our moon to revolve around the Earth once.
What is approximately 28 days?
500
The reason our shadows change position and size throughout the day.
What is the apparent movement of the sun across the sky?
500
Causes the seasons on Earth.
What is the tilt of Earth on its axis?
500
A group of stars that appear to form a pattern.
What is a constellation?
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