Planets
Earth
Stars
Moon
Misc.
100
The planet that is covered mostly by water
What is Earth?
100
The type of movement the Earth does around its axis
What is rotation?
100
The start that we can see from Earth that never appears to move across the sky
What is the north star (Polaris)?
100
The type of movement the moon does around the Earth
What is revolution?
100
The imaginary line through the center of the Earth that we rotate around
What is axis?
200
The planets revolve around the sun because it has a great amount of this force
What is gravity?
200
The amount of days the Earth takes to revolve around the sun
What is 365 days?
200
A group of stars that can be combined to form a "picture"
What are constellations?
200
The moon has this effect on the Earth's oceans
What are ocean tides?
200
The names of the latitude lines above and below the equator
What is Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
300
Outer planets likely cannot hold life because their temperatures are too
What is too cold?
300
Earth's tilt creates these
What are seasons?
300
True or False
We can only see some constellations at certain times of the year because the stars have moved too far away to be visible
False
300
A tool that would help us tell what the surface of the moon looks like
What is a telescope?
300
Equinoxes and solstices occur this often
What is twice a year?
400
When an object spins around its own axis
What is rotation?
400
Northern hemisphere gets more sunlight during this season
What is summer?
400
The reason only some constellations are visible at certain times of the year
What happens when the sun is between the Earth and the constellations?
400
The moon takes about this long to revolve around the Earth
What is a month (29 days)?
400
The tilt of the Earth is ____ degrees
What is 23.5?