What Does
Gravity Do?
Why is the Sun Brighter Than Other Stars?
Why is there Day & Night?
The Moon and Stars and the Tools to See Them
How do Shadows Change?
100

Pulls you and all objects near Earth's surface toward Earth's center.

What is gravity?

100

These are so hot that their energy produces light.

What are stars?

100

The imaginary line going through the middle of the earth.

What is the axis?

100

This is a section of the sky with a recognizable star pattern.

What is a constellation?

100

Is affected by the season and time of day.

What is a shadow?

200
Without this star's strong gravity the Earth would not follow an orbit around it.

What is the sun?

200

The travel of light in a straight line.

What are rays?

200

To spin.

What is rotate?

200

This word describes when the moon is getting smaller or shrinking.

What is waning?

200
The time of noon makes this at its shortest.

What is a shadow?

300

The path an object takes as it moves around another object in space.

What is Orbit?

300

The distance that light travels in one year.

What is light-year?

300
The complete spin completed every 24 hours.

What is a rotation?

300

This word describes when the Moon looks like it is getting bigger each night.

What is waxing?

300

Shadows always point away from this.

DAILY DOUBLE

What is the sun?

400

The force of gravity pulling on an object.

DAILY DOUBLE

What is weight?

400
This is the measure of how bright a star looks from Earth.

What is apparent brightness?

400

It's time to understand that this is based off the pattern of the sun's movement.

What is time in each time zone?

400

This is a tool that collects and focuses light.

What is a telescope? 

400

This tool can tell time and uses a shadow patterns.

What is a sundial?

500

The third planet from the sun.

What is Earth?

500

The action of light rays when they moved away from the star.

What is spreading out?

500

This causes day and night.

What is earth's rotation?

500

The different shapes of the lit part of the moon and change in a monthly pattern.

What are moon phases?

500

The season that shadows point to the east and west.

What is summer?

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