A Revolving Earth
What causes the number of day light hours to vary during the year and in different places on earth?
The tilt
One way the earth moves in space.
It rotates
This model helps you about the earth and how it moves.
Globe
When the sun appears in the morning it's called
Sunrise
God designed the earth to __________.
rotate
The earth moves in a path around the sun. What is this movement called?
revolves
This is the imaginary line that the earth rotates on.
Axis
This is the shape of the earth.
Sphere
The direction the sun appears to move during the day.
west
God's __________ allows people, plants, and animals to survive.
Wisdom
What is the path that the earth uses to makes its way around the sun called?
Orbit
The earth rotates once every _______.
Day or 24 hours
The earth looks flat to us because __________.
We see only a small part of it.
When the sun starts to disappear in the evening it's called.
Sunset
When God first created the earth, everything was ________.
dark
One complete trip around the sun is a ________.
year (about 365 day)
Rotate means to _______.
Spin like a top
Why does the sun appear to move across the sky?
Because the earth rotates
What direction does the sun rise
east
Who made the earth to be tilted?
God
The earths orbit and tilt cause the __________.
Seasons
What are the names of the points that the axis goes through.
North Pole and South Pole
The globe can show you these 3 things as a model of the earth.
1. land and water
2. that it is tilted
3. how it rotates or spins
When the sun rises it is what time of the day? __.M.
A.M.
God created the earth with _______ ______ ____ _____.
Exactly what we need.