Earth
The direction from where the Sun appears to rise.
What is East?
This is the directions that the Sun seems to move across the sky during the day.
What is east to West?
This is the carrying of sediments that produces landforms.
What is erosion?
This is how long it takes the Earth to make one rotation on it's axis.
What is 24 hours?
This has the strongest gravitational pull.
What is the Sun
This is the spin of the earth.
What is rotation.
This causes places like Alaska to have 24 hours of darkness at certain times of the year.
What is the tilt of the axis?
Force that pulls objects toward eachother.
What is gravity?
The celestial body that reflects light from the sun.
What is the Moon?
A star composed of very hot gases.
What is the Sun?
If looking down from the North Pole, this is the direction that the earth spins.
What is counterclockwise?
These are the two gases that make up the Sun.
What are Hydrogen and Helium?
These are small space rocks that hit the surface of the Moon & Earth.
What are Meteoroids?
This always experiences 12 hours of daylight.
What is the Equator?
Has layers and a dense core.
What is the Earth, Moon & Sun?
The imaginary tilted line that extends from north to south.
What is the axis?
The curved path, usually elliptical, taken by a
planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a
celestial body, as the sun.
What is the orbit?
The scientists who designed a pendulum to measure Eartrh's movement.
Who is Foucault?
This is the only one that experiences weather.
What is Earth?
Part of the earth that rotates more quickly.
What is the equator?
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?
Has craters due to meteorites striking the surface. (two answers)
What are the earth and moon?