Earth in Space
Seasons
Eclipses
Tides
Gravity & Inertia
100
Study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
What is astronomy?
100
Reason why there are seasons on Earth
What is Earth's axis is tilted?
100
Partial or total blocking of one object by another
What is eclipse?
100
Rise and fall of the level of the ocean
What is tide?
100
Two factors that keep planets in orbit around the sun
What is gravity and inertia?
200
Spinning motion of a planet on its axis
What is rotation?
200
Two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
What is Equinox
200
When the sun is blocked by the moon
What is a solar eclipse?
200
The tide that occurs right after a full moon
What is spring tide?
200
Two factors that affect the pull of gravity
What is mass and distance?
300
Movement of one object around another object
What is revolution?
300
Two days of the year on which the sun is directly overhead at either 23.5 degrees North or South (longest day or night)
What is solstice?
300
Why we don't have an eclipse during every new and full moon phase
What is moon's tilted orbit?
300
The cause of the tides
What is the gravitational pull of the moon on Earth?
300
If you have a mass of 5kg on Earth your mass on the moon
What is 5kg?
400
Causes day and night
What is Earth's rotation?
400
The season in the northern hemisphere
What is winter?
400
The moon appears darker
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
Tide that occurs and the first and third quarters of the moon
What is neap tide?
400
Why you weigh less on the moon
What is the moon has less gravitational pull?
500
One complete ________ of Earth takes 1 year
What is revolution?
500
The season in the southern hemisphere?
What is summer
500
The darkest part of a shadow
What is umbra?
500
A tide at its lowest level
What is low tide?
500
Why the moon has less gravitational pull
What is the moon has less mass?
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