Earth's Rotation
What is rotate/rotation?
The is what we call the Sun appearing to rise in the east.
What is sunrise?
The different shapes the Moon appears to have in the sky when observed from Earth.
What are moon phases?
A time of year that has a certain kind of weather.
What is a season?
This is how many planets are in our solar system.
What is 8 planets?
What is axis?
This is the direction where the Sun appears to set.
What is the west?
The pattern of the Moon phases, which repeats about every 29 ½ days.
What is a lunar cycle?
What are winter, spring, summer, and fall?
This is what all 8 planets orbit.
What is the Sun?
What is 24 hours?
This is a dark area that is formed when light shines on an opaque object and light cannot pass through.
What is a shadow?
True or false: When we see more reflected light from the Sun on the right side of the Moon and the Moon appears to get bigger, it is called waxing.
True
This is what causes the seasons.
What are Earth's tilt and orbit around the Sun?
These are the 8 planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is the pattern on Earth of light and dark when part of the Earth faces the Sun and part of the Earth faces away from the Sun.
This is the movement of an object around another object, such as the Earth moving around the Sun.
What is orbit?
This is what we call it when there is less reflected light from the Sun on the right side of the Moon, making the Moon appear to get smaller.
What is waning?
What are temperature and the length of daylight?
This is the mnemonic device to help you remember the planets in order.
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