Earth's Motion and Seasons
Moon
Planets
Misc.
Other stuff!
100
What is the Earth shaped like?
ball or sphere
100
What is useful for determining the age of the surface of the moon?
Craters
100
What is the distance between Earth and the sun referred to?
AU or Astronimical Unit
100
What is it called where more than 99 % of all matter in our dolar system is contained?
Oort Cloud
100
What are depressions on the Moon formed by large meteorites called?
craters
200
What is one way we know the earth is a sphere?
curved shadow
200
What is used to measure earthquakes and moonquakes?
Seismographs
200
What are the inner planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
200
What is a large cloud of gas, ice, and dust.
Nebula
200
It takes the Moon the same amount of time to orbit Earth once as it does to rotate ___ on its axis
once
300
What is a force that attracts all objects toward each other
Gravity
300
What is it called when the Moon takes 27 days to go around on its axis?
rotate
300
When the sun, the moon and ___ line up, a lunar eclipse occures
Earth
300
What is the phase of the moon you can't see?
New moon
300
What is Mars sometimes referred to as?
red
400
What is it called when the Earth spins on it's axis, and completes one rotation called?
day
400
What is it called when the Moon Phases are growing in size?
waxing
400
What is the ______? It is made up of Asteroids, the Sun, planets, comets, and other objects?
Solar system
400
What is the longest day of the year in the northern hemishpere?
Summer Solstice
400
___ of the gaseous giant planets have a ring system
all
500
What is the imaginary line drawn from the north geographic ple to the south georphic pole is called Earth's
Axis
500
What kind of eclips is it called when a full moon becomes dark?
Lunar eclipse
500
What are the inner planets also called?
terrestirial
500
What is the sun directly above during an equinox?
Equator
500
What is a meteor that falls to Earth called?
meteroite
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