Rotation
Earth rotates this direction
What is counterclockwise?
Earth's revolution around the sun takes this many days
What is 365.25 or 365 1/4 ?
To spin on an axis
What is rotate?
What is noon?
A force that causes planets to orbit the sun, the moon to orbit Earth, and objects to fall to the ground
What is gravity?
Earth's rotation causes this
What is day and night?
1 revolution around the sun = how many years
What is 1 year?
A large, round object that revolves around a star and has cleared the region around its orbit.
What is Earth?
What is sunrise and sunset?
As oval shape. Eath's orbit is this shape.
What is ellipse or an elliptical pattern?
The length of time it takes Earth to complete 1 rotation
What is 24 hours?
The moon's revolution around Earth takes this many days
What is 27.3 days?
The star at the center of our solar system
What is the sun?
The rotation and revolution of the Earth causes a shadow to change in 2 ways
What are direction and length?
The imaginary line that goes through a planet from pole to pole
What is axis?
The angle Earth's axis is tilted
What is 23.5 degrees?
Earth's revolution around the sun takes this many months
1 month
The path one object takes as it revolves around another in space
What is orbit?
Shadows change throughout the day because of this
What is the rotation of the Earth?
To go around another object
What is revolve?
The sun, stars and moon appear to move because of this
What is Earth's rotation?
Earth revolves in this direction
What is counter clockwise?
An object that revolves around another object in space
What is a satellite?
The sun rises in the _________ and sets in the _______
What is east and west?
A huge ball of gases that makes its own heat and light.
What is a star?