Earth
What are 2 things that cause the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth and its revolution around the sun.
How big is the sun?
It's a medium sized star.
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 27 days or about a month?
What star appears the largest from Earth and why?
The sun because it is the closest.
Explain how the moon emits light.
It is reflecting light from the sun.
Why does the moon have so many craters on its surface?
It has a very weak/no atmosphere.
What vocabulary word describes why we can't see stars during the day?
Rotation because Earth spinning on its axis causes day and night.
This explains why we see specific constellations during certain times of the year.
Earth's revolution around the sun.
Name a way other stars are different from the sun.
The sun is in our solar system and all other stars are outside our solar system.
Explain the motion of the moon.
The moon is revolving around Earth and the Earth and moon are revolving around the sun.
What is the composition of the sun? Name 2
Helium and Hydrogen
What is the composition of the Earth? Name at least 2.
Iron, oxygen, silicon, magnesium
How much larger is the sun than the Earth?
109x
Which star appears to stay in the same place in the night sky?
The North Star AKA Polarius
True or False: The sun is moving across the sky
False: The Earth is rotating which gives the appearance that the sun is moving across the sky.
What causes some stars to appear to stay in the same place?
Earth's rotation on its axis.