This is the reference star pointed to by Earth’s North Pole.
What is North Star?
100
This is the vertical distance or height above sea level.
What is elevation?
100
This is getting smaller.
What is waning?
100
This is the shape of our planet as seen from space.
What is spherical?
100
This is the imaginary circle around Earth or a celestial object that is everywhere the same distance from the poles.
What is the equator?
200
This is spinning on an axis.
What is rotation?
200
This is the distance above Earth’s surface.
What is altitude?
200
This is the shape of the Moon just after and just before the new Moon phase.
What is a crescent Moon?
200
This is the position from which a visual observation is made.
What is point of view?
200
This is an imaginary axle that a planet spins on.
What is the axis?
300
This is what causes day and night.
What is the rotation of the Earth?
300
This is a view of Earth’s surface looking downward from a height.
What is bird’s-eye view?
300
What is getting bigger?
What is waxing?
300
This is an object’s position relative to other objects.
What is location?
300
This is the imaginary line where the sky meets Earth or the ocean.
What is the horizon?
400
This is the path and length of time one object takes to travel around another object.
What is orbit?
400
This is the collection of objects, distances, and directions used to establish the location of something.
What is frame of reference?
400
This is what should be recorded when taking data about the moon.
What are date, time, shape, and orientation?
400
This is how observing a ship that is sailing out to sea provides evidence for a round Earth.
What is as the ship moves out to sea it appears to become smaller, when it reaches the horizon it appears to sink because the view is blocked by the horizon line?
400
This is the angular distance north or south from Earth’s equator.
What is latitude?
500
This is traveling around something.
What is revolution?
500
This is the straight, unimpeded path taken by light from an object to an eye.
What is line of sight?
500
This is a Moon shape that is larger than a first or third quarter Moon but smaller than a full Moon.
What is a gibbous Moon?
500
Draw a diagram showing the revolution of Earth around the Sun; include the Earth in 4 positions with an axis drawn on each. (remember, axis should point in the same direction for all 4 "Earths")
What is (see diagram)?
500
This is the distance measured on Earth's surface east or west of the prime meridian.