Vocabulary
Seasons
Ancient Models of the Sun
Phases of the Moon
Miscellaneous
100
Patterns of stars in the sky.
What are constellations?
100
23.5 degrees
What is Earth's tilt?
100
An outdated representation of the way the Sun moves around Earth, now considered more of a legend.
What is an ancient model of the Sun?
100
When we cannot see the moon from Earth because the sun is shining on the side that does not face us.
What is a new moon?
100
It takes the Earth 365.25 days to revolve around the Sun. Every four years, this is needed in February to account for the extra 1/4 days.
What is Leap Year?
200
The path Earth travels when revolving around the Sun.
What is Earth's orbit?
200
The higher temperatures at the equator because more direct sunlight hits there. At the poles, the sun is spread more around the curves of Earth.
What is caused by concentrated sunlight?
200
The Earth is flat. The sky is like a flat plate supported at four places by mountains. The sun is carried across the sky in a boat, from east to west. At night, the sun is carried back to the east through the Underworld.
What is Egypt's ancient model of the Sun?
200
When we see a full circle of the moon because the entire side that faces is covered in sunlight.
What is a full moon?
200
27.3 days
What is the rate of the moon's revolution and rotation?
300
An entire one is equal to a year on Earth.
What is one revolution around the Sun?
300
When the Earth's 23.5 degree tilt is leaning toward the Sun.
When is summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere?
300
The Earth is a circular disk, surrounded by the ocean. In the center of the world is a great mountain. The sun goes around the mountain once a day. In the evening, the sun goes behind the western side of the mountain. It travels behind the mountain at night, and comes out on the eastern side in the morning.
What is India's ancient model of the sun?
300
When we see half of the moon as it is getting larger.
What is a first quarter moon?
300
The rise and fall of ocean water because of the pull on Earth caused by gravity.
What is a tide?
400
One of two days in the year when day and night have the same number of hours.
What is an equinox?
400
When Earth's 23.5 degree tilt is leaning away from the Sun.
When is winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere?
400
The sky is a round dome, surrounding a flat square-shaped Earth. The ocean goes all around the Earth. The sun travels in a big tilted circle. At night the sun is not under the Earth, but rather on the side of the Earth.
What is China's ancient model of the sun?
400
When we see half of the moon as it is getting smaller.
What is a third quarter moon?
400
Polaris, part of Ursa Minor, that looks like it never moves in the sky.
What is the North Star?
500
When a shadow blocks either the Sun or moon from Earth's perspective.
What is an eclipse?
500
This is a necessary component in the reasons for the seasons, along with Earth's tilt. Without it, Earth's tilt would not dictate multiple seasons.
What is Earth's revolution?
500
Most ancient Greeks believed taht the Earth floated in teh ocean like a cork in water. One person, named Anaximander, thought that the Earth was a cylinder with a rounded top, floating in the air. The sky surrounded the Earth, and beyond the sky was a region of fire. The sun, moon, and stars were holes in the sky, through which the fire could be seen.
What is Greece's ancient model of the sun?
500
Waxing and waning.
What is it called when the part of the moon we see is growing? Shrinking?
500
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What are Neap and Spring tides?
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