There are ___________ planets in our Solar System.
Hint: NOT including pluto
What is 8?
100
An ______________ is a large rock in outer space.
What is Asteroid?
100
The Moon is visible to observers from Earth because
1) Reflected sunlight
2) Earth's atmosphere
3) Gases
4) Volcanic eruptions
What is 1)-Reflected sunlight?
100
The length of one day on Earth is determined by how long it takes Earth to __________ once.
What is rotate?
100
The moon gets its light from the ____________.
What is Sun?
200
_________ is the closest the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
200
A comet is a small world which scientists sometimes call a planetesimal. They are made out of ____________ and _________ kind of like a dirty snow ball.
What is dust/dirt and ice?
200
When Earth's shadow falls on the moon, the shadow creates a...
1) High tide
2) Low tide
3) Lunar eclipse
4) Moon phase
What is 3?
200
The length of one year is equivalent to the time it takes for one _____________ of the Earth around the sun.
What is revolution?
200
One factor that contributes to the seasons is
1) the revolution of the moon around the earth
2) the tilt of earth on its axis
3) the rising and falling of the tides
4) the distance of earth from the sun
What is 2) the tilt of earth on its axis?
300
Uranus takes longer than Mars to revolve around the sun because __________________________________________
________________________________________________.
What is Uranus is further from the sun/ Mars is closer to the sun?
300
________________ appear to have beautiful tails.
What is Comets?
300
If a full moon is observed in New York on June 1, the next time there will be a full moon is
1) June 7
2) July 1
3) June 15
4) July 7
What is 2)-July 1?
300
Different time zones are the result of Earth's __________.
What is rotation?
300
The Earth is constantly __________ around its own axis while ____________ around the sun.
What is rotating, revolving?
400
List two objects that are apart of the Solar System besides the planets.
What is Asteroids, The Asteroid Belt, Comets, Dwarf planets (such as Pluto), Moons, Meteors?
400
Both Asteroids and Comets are apart of the ____________ _____________.
What is Solar System?
400
At which moon position would a man on Earth see the entire lighted half of the moon (full moon phase)?
What is C?
400
It takes the moon about 1 month (30 days) to ___________ around the Earth.
What is rotate?
400
___________ is the major force that keeps the moon in orbit around the earth and the earth in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
500
Explain why warmer air temperatures in summer occur in June rather than in December in the Northern Hemisphere.
Because of the tilt of Earth’s axis, the Northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun in the summer (July) and away from the summer in the winter (December)
500
The Asteroid belt is located between _________________ and _______________.
Hint: what two planets?
What is Mars and Jupiter?
500
Draw the Earth's axis during winter (in December)
-Remember to draw the sun
-Label the Northern and Southern Hemisphere
-Shade the part of the Earth that is not lit.
What is the Northern hemisphere tilted away from the sun.
500
It takes the Earth 365 days (1 year) to ___________ around the sun.
What is revolve?
500
One observable event, other than moon phases, caused by the moon orbiting earth is __________.