This is considered the first phase of the lunar cycle.
What is the new moon?
100
This is the main cause of the tides.
What is the moon's gravitational pull?
100
It is located between Jupiter and Mars.
What is the Asteroid belt?
100
This causes the seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth and its revolution around the sun?
100
This is given off by stars.
What is heat and light energy?
200
Two weeks of the lunar cycle have passed and the entire face of the moon is visible.
What is the full moon?
200
The highest tides are caused when the earth, sun, and moon are in this position.
What is lined up with sun, moon in between and then the Earth?
200
These are the parts of a comet.
What are nucleus, coma, and tail?
200
This the difference between a rotation and a revolution.
What is an object rotating spins on an axis, and an object revolving is moving around another object?
200
This part of the Earth makes it look like stars twinkle.
What is the Earth's atmosphere?
300
The moon is increasing in light between a first quarter and full moon.
What is waxing gibbous?
300
During a full or new moon the tides are at this level.
What is highest?
300
This is the difference between a meteoroid and an asteroid.
What is a meteoroid is a small asteroid? Most meteoroids are the size of pebbles or grains of sand.
300
This is the position of Earth on its axis in Summer and Winter.
What is in Summer the Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun and in Winter tilted away from the sun?
300
The time of year when the sun's rays are at their greatest angle.
What is winter?
400
A bit of the sunlit side of the moon shows, with the sunlit side being on the right side.
What is waxing crescent?
400
At this moon phase, the moon and sun form an almost 90* angle with the sun, as a result of the forces, the tides are...
What are first quarter or third quarter moon phases the tides are lowest?
400
This is the length of revolution of an asteroid around the sun.
What is three to six earth years?
400
These are two reasons the Earth can keep comfortable temperatures.
What is Earth rotating quickly on its axis, once every 24 hours, and Earth's significant atmosphere preventing overheating and overcooling?
400
The area of the earth that has one season.
What is near the equator?
500
We never the dark side of the moon due to this reason.
What is the rotation and revolution of the moon lasting about the same amount of time...27.3 days?
500
This is the reason the oceans have a more visible display of movement during change of tides.
What is Earth's oceans move more easily than the solid land?
500
This is how a meteor shower occurs.
What is at certain times of year the earth passes through the orbit of a comet? The comet may heat up and lose particles. The loose pieces collide with the Earth's atmosphere becoming meteors.
500
The times of year when the length of daylight and darkness are the same.
What are the equinoxes?
500
This area has four seasons because of.... and this area is.....
What is the midlatitudes have four seasons and what is the reason for four seasons is that area changes most with the tilt change and when the earth's position toward and away from the sun exchanges?