Vocab
Day & Night
Seasons
Seasons With Diagrams
Wild Card
100

a group of many stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity

What is a galaxy?

100

The imaginary line through the middle of the Earth, which it rotates on

What is the axis?

100

The motion of one object traveling around another in space

What is revolution/orbit?

100

The season in the Northern Hemisphere at point A

What is summer?

100

The season a hemisphere experiences when it receives the least direct sunlight

What is winter?

200

The force of attraction between objects due to their masses

What is gravity?

200

The amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate once

What is a day/24 hours?

200

The 2 seasons that begin on equinoxes

What are fall and spring?

200

The season in the Southern Hemisphere at Position D


What is fall?

200

2 things that determine how much gravity an object has

What are mass and distance?

300

a large round object that orbits the sun

What is a planet?

300

The reason we have day and night

What is rotation of the Earth?

300

The season when there are the longest hours of daylight

What is summer?

300

The two points on the diagram that are equinoxes


What are A and C?

300

The day the sun is as far north or south of the equator as possible

What is a solstice?

400

the sun and everything that orbits it

What is the solar system?

400

What you experience when your location on Earth is facing the sun

What is day?

400

The direction the earth moves around the sun

What is counterclockwise?

400

The point on the diagram where the Southern Hemisphere experiences Spring

What is Position D?

400

The date when winter begins in the Southern Hemisphere

What is June 21?

500

The day the sun is directly on the equator

What is an equinox?

500

Where you're facing if it's night at your location

What is away from the sun?

500

The month when spring begins in the Southern Hemisphere

What is September?

500

The approximate date at Position B


What is December 21?

500

The reason the North and South Poles are always cold (even in summer)

What is they never get direct sunlight?

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