Shadows
Shadows are longest at this part of the day?
What is sunrise and sunset?
Our Earth does this one time every 24 hours.
What is a rotation?
This causes seasons?
What is the Earth tilting?
When the moon is getting bigger it is this.
What is waxing?
This is 12,000 diameters.
What is the distance of the number of “Earths” it would take to reach the Sun?
At this time of day shadows are shortest.
What is noon(12:00)?
The Earth does this once a year.
What is travels (revolution) around the Sun?
This imaginary line runs North and South through the globe.
What is the axis?
When the moon is getting smaller it is this.
What is waning?
The biggest and brightest.
What is the biggest star, our Sun?
Shadows point North at this time of day.
What is noon?
The Sun does not do this.
What is move?
When the Earth tilts towards the Sun, this happens?
What is spring & summer?
This is when the moon is “missing.”
What is a New Moon?
1/4 the size of our Earth.
What is the Moon! *Divide Earth by 4 because the moon is 1/4 of it’s size.
What direction are shadows pointing in the morning?
What is West?
This is the Earths closest star.
What is the Sun?
In the Southern Hemisphere this happens when North America has winter.
What is summer?
The moon is getting bigger…this is my clue.
The light is on the right.
A force holding Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
Why do shadows change throughout the day?
What is position of the Sun?
Stars do not do this.
What is move in the sky?
Travels around the Sun.
What is Earth’s revolution?
Takes about 1 month.
What are Moon phases?
This is about 100 times as wide (diameter) as Earth.
What is the size of the Sun?