Seasons
Movement
Phases of the moon
Gravitational Pull
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100
The tilt of Earth's axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
100
The length of time it take Earth to rotate.
What is 24 hours or 1 day?
100
When there is a 90 degree angle between the moon, Earth and sun.
What is a quarter moon?
100
The two forces that pull on Earth and create tides.
What is the moon and sun?
100
the scientist responsible for coming up with the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Newton?
200
This is the season we experience when the suns rays hit the northern hemisphere.
What is summer?
200
365 1/4 days is how long it takes for this to take place.
What is one revolution?
200
When the sun shines on the back side of the moon. The portion of the moon that faces us is not visible.
What is a new moon?
200
This is the force that has the most pull on Earth's water creating tides.
What is the moon?
200
Kepler's third law of planetary motion states that this determines how long it takes for a planet to revolve around the sun.
What is the planet's distance from the sun?
300
This is the season that we experience when the sun hits more towards the equator.
What is spring and autumn?
300
The amount of time it takes the moon to revolve around Earth.
What is one month?
300
When the visible portion of the moon gets smaller.
What is waning?
300
When Earth, moon and sun align is a straight line and create a large tide that occurs twice a month.
What is a spring tide?
300
When the Earth comes between the sun and moon and a shadow of Earth falls on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
We would experience constant year round temperatures if the tilt of the Earth were at this angle.
What is 0 degrees?
400
The two forces that keeps planets in orbit.
What is gravitational pull and inertia?
400
The two movements of the moon that allow us to only see one side of the moon
What is revolution and rotation?
400
The angle that occurs between moon, Earth and sun when a neap tide occurs.
What is a 90 degree angle?
400
This states that the closer a planet is to the sun as it revolves the faster it moves and the farther from the sun it is the slower it moves.
What is the 2nd law of planetary motion?
500
The reason that Antartica does not experience summer when the southern hemisphere is facing the sun.
What is the angle of the sun's rays?
500
This person found out that planets orbit the sun in an ellipse.
Who is Kepler?
500
Used to describe the moon when its shape appears to be more convex in shape.
What is gibbous?
500
During what moon phase(s) would someone on the coast experience a spring tide?
What is a new moon and full moon?
500
When the alignment of Earth, moon and sun are in the following order this is the moon phase we would see: SUN---EARTH---MOON
What is full moon?
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