Vocabulary One
Vocabulary Two
Shadows One
Shadows Two
Shadows Three
100
One of the ends of an imaginary axle, called an axis, on which Earth rotates
What is the North Pole?
100
The star at the center of our solar system around which everything else orbits
What is the Sun?
100
long and pointing westward
What is the shadow shape at sunrise?
100
Where your shadow points when the light source is behind you
What is in front of you?
100
These type of objects cast shadows
What are opaque objects?
200
The point between night (darkness) and day (daylight). The time at which day first happens
What is sunrise?
200
The dark area behind an object that blocks light
What is a shadow?
200
The direction that the sun appears to rise
What is East?
200
The direction that the Earth rotates on its axis
What is counter clockwise?
200
Length of time it takes the Earth to make one full rotation
What is twenty four hours (one day)?
300
An imaginary line around which a sphere, like a planet, rotates
What is an axis?
300
An instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic North
What is a compass?
300
The reason the sun appears to rise and set
What is Earth's rotation on its axis?
300
The percent of the Earth that is in daylight at all times
What is fifty percent?
300
Materials that light can easily pass through are called
What is transparent?
400
To move or travel around an object in a curved path
What is orbit?
400
The point between day(daylight) and night (darkness). The time at which night first happens.
What is sunset?
400
The time of day that the shadows would be their shortest
What is noon?
400
Amount of time it takes the Earth to make one full revolution around the sun
What is 365 days (one year)?
400
The sun is lowest in the sky during this season
What is winter?
500
The direction something points
What is orientation?
500
Turning around on an axis
What is rotation?
500
The tilt of Earth's axis and the revolution around the sun cause this
What are the seasons?
500
long and pointing eastward
What is the type of shadow at sunset?
500

Light can pass through this type of object but it is fuzzy and hard to see through.

What is a translucent?

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