Revolution
Give the definition of revolve.
What is to move around another object?.
This revolves around the Sun.
What is the Earth? [Or other planets in our Solar System].
The Earth spins on this imaginary line running from the North to the South Pole through the middle of the Earth.
What is the Earth's axis?
This moon phase is when you can see all of the moon.
What is a full moon?
This revolves around the Earth.
What is the Moon?
This is the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate one time.
What is one day/24 hours?
When you only see half of the moon, the moon is in this phase - [Pick one: gibbous, full, or quarter]
What is quarter?
These are the two reasons that Earth has seasons.
What are the tilt of the Earth and revolution around the Sun?
When this part of the Earth is pointed away from the Sun, that part of the Earth has this season.
What is winter?
This is caused when the Earth revolves around the Sun.
What are seasons?
This is because the Moon completes one rotation and one revolution at the same time.
Why is the same side of the Moon always facing Earth?
This is the pulling force between two objects. We have it here on Earth and the moon has it, but it is much less.
What is gravity?
The Moon's gravity forms this bulge of water which moves as the Earth rotates. We have four of them each day.
What are tides?
This is how long it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
What is one year/365 1/4 days?
The revolution of the Moon around the Earth causes these changes.
What are the phases of the Moon?
The part of the Earth that is tilted toward the Sun is having this season.
What is summer?
When one object in space moves into the shadow of another object in space.
What is an eclipse?