The Moon ___________ light from the Sun and just like Earth, half of the Moon is always lit by the Sun.
What is reflects?
100
In the morning, the Sun appears low in the sky; objects cast ____________ shadows.
What is long?
100
The effects on Earth due to the change in the amount of sunlight caused by the tilt of Earth’s axis.
What are seasons?
100
It has an atmosphere of gases around it and it orbits millions of miles from the Sun.
What is Earth?
100
A tool that aids in the study of objects in outer space.
What is a telescope?
200
A small section (less than a quarter moon) of the half/side of the Moon facing Earth is lighted.
What is crescent moon?
200
As Earth continues to rotate and the Sun appears lower in the sky toward evening, the shadows get ___________.
What is longer?
200
Do the seasons depend on the distance of Earth from the Sun?
What is no?
200
It does not have a rocky surface and its atmosphere glows and gives off light.
What is the sun?
200
Where does the sun appear to set?
What is in the west?
300
The entire half/side of the Moon facing Earth is dark.
What is new moon?
300
As Earth rotates, the Sun’s appears higher in the sky, and the shadows get _____________.
What is shorter?
300
The sequence of the seasons during the year.
What is summer, fall/autumn, winter, spring?
300
It has a rocky, dusty surface with many craters and no water.
What is the moon?
300
Causes weather conditions on Earth.
What is the Sun's energy?
400
Half of the side of the Moon facing Earth is lighted and the other half is dark; the Moon appears as a half circle.
What is quarter moon?
400
At noon, when the Sun is directly overhead, objects cast __________________.
What is no shadow at all?
400
_____________occurs when part of Earth is tilted away from the Sun and ____________ occurs when part of the Earth is tilted toward the Sun.
What is winter---summer?
400
The reason the number of daylight hours changes throughout the year.
What is because of the Earth's tilt?
400
Due to the earth's rotation, the side of the Earth not facing the sun experiences _________________.
What is night?
500
The entire half/side of the Moon facing Earth is lighted; the Moon appears as a full circle.
What is full moon?
500
Objects on Earth cast shadows that help show Earth’s _________________. The angle of the Sun, low in the sky to higher in the sky, changes the length of the shadow cast behind an object.
What is rotation?
500
Occur when neither part of Earth is pointed directly toward or away from the Sun.
What is autumn and spring?
500
It takes the Earth one year or 365 days to _____________around the Sun.
What is revolve?
500
Can gather more light than the eye, so it makes faint, faraway objects seem brighter and closer.