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Morris
100

the only planet known to have life

What is the Earth?

100

the closest star to Earth

What is the sun?

100

a satellite

What is anything that orbits a planet?

100

the movement that causes day and night

What is Earth's rotation?
100

the mascot of Morris Middle School

What is the eagle?

200

the closest planet to the sun

What is Mercury?

200

the definition for a star

What is a big ball of burning gas?

200

something that orbits a planet that wasn't manmade

What is a natural satellite?

200

takes 365 1/4 days for Earth to complete

What is one revolution?

200

the number of grade levels at Morris Middle School

What are 3 grade levels?

300

the farthest planet from the sun

What is Neptune?

300

the object that orbits a star

What is a planet?

300
the moon has 8 of these

What are phases?

300

the imaginary line Earth rotates around

What is Earth's axis?

300

the 6th grade teacher that has worked at Morris Middle the longest

Who are Ms. Carlton AND Ms. Knowles?

400
the only planet that rotates completely on its side

What is Uranus?

400

when the moon passes in front of the sun, blocking it fully or partly

What is a solar eclipse?

400

when the light on the moon is shrinking

What is waning?

400

the degrees that Earth's axis is tilted

What is 23.5?

400
the number of 6th graders that go to Morris

What is between 130-140 students?

500

the two types of planets

What are rocky (terrestrial) and gassy (gas giant)?
500

the force from our star that keeps the solar system together

What is the sun's gravity?

500
the cause of the moon's phases
What are the positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon?
500

its how we measure a month

How long does the moon take to orbit Earth?

500

the number of teachers at Morris Middle School

What is 28? (25-30)

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