Considered ‘dirty snowballs’ made of ice mixed with carbon dioxide and other substances
Comet
An attractive force that draws objects with a mass towards each other
Gravity
The amount of time taken for the moon to orbit around Earth
27.3 days
The amount of time taken for the Earth to complete 1 revolution around the Sun
365.25 days
The non-living parts of an ecosystem
Abiotic Factors
Objects that orbit around planets
Satellites
The movement of a celestial body travelling in a circular path around an external point
Revolution
The bright side of the moon is larger than a semicircle, but smaller than a circle
Gibbous
23.5 degrees
An organism that creates its own food
Producer
Space rocks that enter into the Earth’s atmosphere and fall to Earth
Meteor
The circular movement of an object around a center point called an axis
Rotation
When the Moon sits between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow on the Earth
Solar Eclipse
The season when the southern hemisphere is closer to the Sun
Summer
The inherited features of an organism that enable it to survive in its environment
Adaptation
Space rocks that are orbiting in space (big ones)
Asteroids
The curved, repeating path that an object in space takes around another object, maintained by a balance between forward speed and gravity
Orbit
The outer region of partial shadow that receives some light during an eclipse.
Penumbra
A day where there is an equal amount of daylight and nighttime
Equinox
The symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is not affected
Commensalism
The head of a comet
Coma
The shape of the Earth's orbital path around the sun
Ellipse/Elliptical
The name of the planet that collided with Earth ~4.5 billion years ago to form the Moon
Theia
The season Indonesia is experiencing during September
None, countries on the Equator don't experience seasons
Vertebrates belong to this phylum
Phylum Chordata