Earth
Sun
Moon
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Vocabulary
100

This causes the Earth's seasons.

What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?

100

The word that represents sun (____ panels, or _____ eclipse)

What is solar?

100
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
100
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
100

This word describes the Earth spinning.

What is "rotating"?

200

Half of the Earth.

What is a "Hemisphere"?

200

The sun is a bright nuclear ball of gas called this.

What is a "star"?

200
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
200

It takes this long for the Earth to complete one full rotation.

What is 24 hours? (1 Day)

200
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
What is the "axis"?
300

The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.

What is 365 full days? (1 Year)

300
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.
What is a "solar eclipse"?
300

The color the moon appears during a total lunar eclipse

What is red?

300

The term for when the length of day and night are most different.

What is solstice?

300
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see all of the lit side.
What is "full moon"?
400

When it is winter in North America, it is this season in Australia.

What is "summer"?

400
This is how the sun's rays strike the Earth in the summer.
What is "directly"?
400
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 29 days or about a month?
400
The sun appears higher in the sky during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
400
As we see less and less of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is "waning"?
500

A longitude line that runs through the Pacific Ocean. The day changes when you cross it.

What is the International Dateline?

500

The amount of time it takes light to reach Earth from the Sun.

What is 8 minutes?

500
The moon affects this part of the Earth, changing it daily on our beaches.
What is the "ocean tide"?
500

We have this special day every 4 years in February because it takes the Earth 365 and 1/4 days to revolve around the sun.

What is "Leap Day"? (Leap year is fine)

500

The name for the darkest part of a shadow

What is Umbra?

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