Vocabulary #1
Vocabulary #2
Time
Odds and Ends
100
Period during which the Moon orbits the Earth
What is lunar cycle?
100
When the Moon is not visible because it is in the Earth's shadow
What is lunar eclipse?
100
When the Sun is highest in the sky
What is 12:00pm or noon?
100
Part of the Earth where the temperatures stays warm and the same all year round
What is near the Equator?
200
Day and Night on Earth are caused by this
What is Earth's rotation?
200
Earth spins on this
What is an axis?
200
The duration of the lunar cycle
What is 29 days? (approximately one month)
200
Long or Short - Shadows at noon
What is short? (because the Sun is directly overhead)
300
How long it take the Earth to orbit the Sun
What is 365 days?
300
The amount of time it take Earth to make one full rotation (around its own axis)
What is one day (24 hours)?
300
This causes seasons
What is the Earth's orbit around the Sun (revolution) and the Earth's tilt (on its axis)
300
Cloudy or Sunny - Shadows are clear and crisp on these types of days
What is sunny?
400
Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall
What are the 4 seasons?
400
Earth is divided into 2 hemispheres here
What is the equator?
400
Season in Australia in June, season in San Ramon in June (2 different answers)
What is winter (Australia/Southern Hemisphere) and summer (San Ramon/Northern Hemisphere)?
400
Lunar Eclipse or Solar Eclipse - When the Moon is in the Earth's shadow
What is a lunar eclipse? (The Earth is between the Sun and the Moon. The Moon can't get any sunlight.)
500
The different shapes of the moon
What are its phases?
500
The Moon as a full, lighted disc
What is a Full Moon?
500
The shape the Sun makes in crossing the sky during the day
What is an arc? (rises in the East at the horizon and sets in the West at the horizon)
500
True or False - The Earth stops rotating on its axis when it orbits the Sun?
What is FALSE? (The Earth is rotating on its axis at the same time as the Earth is orbiting the Sun. One rotation on its axis is one day, one revolution (orbit) around the Sun is one year.)
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