Earth
Sun
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
Earth, Sun or Moon
100

The direction from where the Sun appears to rise.

What is East?

100

This is the directions that the Sun seems to move across the sky during the day.

What is east to West?

100

This is the carrying of sediments that produces landforms.

What is erosion?

100

This is how long it takes the Earth to make one rotation on it's axis.

What is 24 hours?

100

This has the strongest gravitational pull.

What is the Sun

200

This is the spin of the earth.

What is rotation.

200

This causes places like Alaska to have 24 hours of darkness at certain times of the year.

What is the tilt of the axis?

200

Force that pulls objects toward eachother.

What is gravity?

200

The celestial body that reflects light from the sun.

What is the Moon?

200

A star composed of very hot gases.

What is the Sun?

300

If looking down from the North Pole, this is the direction that the earth spins.

What is counterclockwise?

300

These are the two gases that make up the Sun.

What are Hydrogen and Helium?

300

These are small space rocks that hit the surface of the Moon & Earth.

What are Meteoroids?

300

This always experiences 12 hours of daylight.

What is the Equator?

300

Has layers and a dense core.

What is the Earth, Moon & Sun?

400

The imaginary tilted line that extends from north to south. 

What is the axis?

400

The curved path, usually elliptical, taken by a 

planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a 

celestial body, as the sun.

What is the orbit?

400

The scientists who designed a pendulum to measure Eartrh's movement.

Who is Foucault?

400

This is the only one that experiences weather.

What is Earth?

500

Part of the earth that rotates more quickly.

What is the equator?

500

This is the first African American to settle in the 13 colonies.  Mrs. Tekippe talked about him on the announcements this morning.

What is William Tucker?

500

Has craters due to meteorites striking the surface. (two answers)

What are the earth and moon?

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