Causes/Patterns
Seasons
Moon
Stars
Vocab and Other
100

What causes night and day?

What is the Earth spinning or rotating, round and round on an axis?

100

What are the patterns of seasons?

What is winter, spring, summer, fall?

100
This is a dull ball of rock that orbits the earth.
What is the moon?
100

What is the closest star to our planet?

What is the sun?

100

What is an axis?

What is an imaginary line that runs through the earth from the north pole to the south pole?

200

What causes a shadow to point West and be long?

What is the sun low in the East sky?

200

What are two causes for the seasons?

What is earth's revolving around the sun and the earth's tilt on its axis?

200
These are the different ways the moon appears to us.
What are the phases of the moon?
200

What is the absolute magnitude of a star?



What is how bright the star actually is if all the stars are at the same distance?

200

What is a hemisphere?

What is half of the earth? 

300

What causes seasons?

What is the Earth revolving around the sun and tilting on its axis?

300

Why would the northern hemisphere be experiencing summer?

What is the northern hemisphere is tilting toward the sun, getting more direct sunlight?

300
The moon does not have its own light. In fact the light comes from this.
What is the reflection of sunlight.
300

What is the apparent magnitude of a start?




What is how bright the star appears from earth?

300

What is a synonym for earth's spinning? 

What is rotating?

400

What causes the moon phases?

What is the angle we see the moon from earth that is illuminated by the sun?

400

How do the daylight hours compare during winter and summer?

What is increased daylight hours during summer and decreased daylight hours during winter?

400

What causes a new moon?

Moon's orbit around Earth moves it between Earth and the Sun so the illuminated side is facing away from Earth.

400

What is a star made of?

What is hydrogen and helium?

400

What is the earth's revolution?

What is the earth going around the sun on an orbit or path?

500

 Why does it look like the sun rises in the east and sets in the west?

What is the Earth rotates or spins toward the east making the east coast to see the sun first and the west coast to see the sun last. 

500

Why do earth's hemispheres have opposite seasons?

What is one hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, getting more direct sunlight while the other hemisphere is tilted away from the sun getting less direct sunlight?

500

What is the order of the moon phases, starting with a new moon?

What is the

  • New moon.
  • Waxing Crescent.
  • First Quarter.
  • Waxing Gibbous.
  • Full moon.
  • Waning Gibbous.
  • Third Quarter.
  • Waning Crescent.
500

What is a synonym for brightness?

What is luminosity?

500

What is a group of stars called?

What is a constellation?

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