Earth: The Rocky Planet
The direction Earth rotates and revolves.
What is counterclockwise.
The 8 main phases of the moon.
What are:New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent?
The three types of storms on the sun.
What are: Sun spots, solar flares and Prominences?
Finish the line from Goodnight Moon:
"In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon, and a picture of..."
What is "The cow jumping over the moon?"
When we see two full moons in the same month, the second full moon is called a ___________ .
What is Blue Moon?
The two hemispheres we live in.
What is Northern and Western?
Draw the positions of earth, moon, sun during a solar eclipse.
Show your drawing
Approximate number of earth's that could fit inside the sun.
More than one million
The type of animal on the cover of the book, "I love You to the Moon and Back."
What is a Bear?
The fraction that best compares moon's size to earth's.
What is one-fourth? 1/4
A country in South America that the equator passes through.
What are: Ecuador, Columbia or Brazil?
The first space mission to the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
Two gases that make up the sun's core.
Hydrogen and Helium
A famous Beatles' song with "sun" in the title.
What are "Here Comes the Sun" or "Good Day Sunshine?"
The largest LIVING structure on Earth.
What are Coral reefs?
Number of days it would take for Earth to make 5 revolutions around the sun.
What is 1,825 days?
The distance between the moon and earth. Round to the nearest hundred thousand miles.
What is 200,000 miles? (actual is 238,900 miles)
Layer of the sun that could be considered the "surface of the sun."
Photosphere
The number of kittens playing together in Goodnight Moon.
What is two?
The most commonly littered item on our planet.
What are cigarette butts?
Astronomers who first came up with the idea that the earth revolves around the sun, NOT the sun revolves around the earth.
Who are Galileo and Copernicus?
Two of the three astronauts on Apollo 11.
Who are: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin?
Two solar storms that can interfere with communications on Earth.
What are solar wind and sunspots?
Finish the lyric from this Van Morrison song. One of the words is "moon."
It's a marvelous night for a___________ (two words)
What is Moon Dance?
The super-continent that once existed on Earth before it broke up into the continents we know today. (Double dollar amount for correct spelling)!
What is Pangaea?