The Earth
One complete revolution of Earth around the sun takes about.....
What is one year?
A body that orbits a planet is called a....
What is a satellite?
The times when day and night are of equal length...
What is an equinox?
This planetary object has the greatest affect on tides....
What is the moon?
This calendar includes 12 months of 30 days each with 5 extra days at the end of the year...
What is Egyptian?
Earth has seasons because....
A meteoroid that enters the Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light is called a.....
What is a meteor?
The beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere is marked by the ________ equinox.
Vernal/Spring
A tide with the least distance between low and high tides is called a(n).....
What is a neap tide?
A pattern or grouping of stars imagined by people to represent a figure is a....
What is a constellation?
In the southern Hemisphere , the summer solstice occurs when the sun is....
What is the farthest south?
Large craters in the moon were caused by....
What are meteoroids?
Day and night are caused by are caused by Earth's _____________ on its axis.
What is revoltion?
A tide with the greatest distance between low and high tides is called a(n).....
What is a spring tide?
Mr. Monteith's favorite superhero is...
Who is Iron Man?
Sunlight at the equator is.....
What is concentrated in a smaller area?
The time from one full moon to another is about _________ days.
What is 29 (about a month)
Explain how day and night occur....
Earth rotates on its axis in a twenty four hour cycle. The part of Earth that faces the sun experiences day. As earth turns, the part of Earth that experienced day rotate to face away from the sun, where it experiences night.
The number of low and high tides that are in a 24 hour period
What is 4?
Constellations seem to move as the seasons on Earth change...This is causes by.....
What is the Earth revolves around the sun, so we have different view of the stars?
The day when the sun appears farthest north in the Northern Hemisphere is called the....
What is the summer solstice?
Earth's orbit is in the shape of a......
What is an ellipse of slightly elongated circle?
It is warmer near the equator because......
Near the equator, sunlight hits earth's surface more directly. Near the poles, sunlight hits earth's surface at an angle. The same amount of energy is spread out over a larger area. As a result it is generally colder near the poles.
Explain why spring tides are higher than all other tides....
Spring tides occur when the moon, the sun, and Earth all line up. At this time, the pull of the sun’s and moon’s gravity on Earth is strongest, so the tides are the highest.
The temperatures on the moon and mercury range a lot between day and night...why is there such a large range in temperatures?
What is there is no atmosphere so there is nothing to keep the energy from leaving.