The Planets
Time
Seasons
The Moon
Moon Phases
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The only planet with life is...
Earth
100
What is the length of Earth's Day?
24 hours
100
What causes the seasons on Earth?
The tilt of Earth on its axis.
100
What causes the moon to orbit Earth?
What is gravity?
100
In which moon phase can we see the entire lit half of the moon?
Full Moon
200
Which is the largest planet?
What is Jupiter?
200
The length of Earth's year:
365.25 days
200
The hemisphere is tilted toward the sun in this season.
What is summer?
200
The amount of the moon lit by the sun never changes. True or False
True
200
When the moon is getting bigger and more than half the moon is lit, we call it...
waxing gibbous.
300
How many planets are between Earth and the sun?
Two - Earth is the third planet
300
The motion of a planet around the sun
What is revolve?
300
The season where the hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
300
We see different amounts of the moon because...
the moon orbits Earth.
300
When the moon seems to get smaller and less than half the moon is lit, we call it a...
waning crescent.
400
In space, where there are no galaxies, the sky is...
almost empty.
400
the time it takes a planet to spin on its axis
What is rotate?
400
In June, it is which season in Australia?
What is winter.
400
During a solar eclipse, how are the sun, moon, and earth arranged?
The moon is between the sun and earth.
400
When the moon is between the sun and Earth, which moon phase do we see?
New Moon (none is lit - the lit side is facing away from Earth)
500
The closest star to Earth is...
THE SUN!
500
Name the planets with years longer than Earth's year.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Jupiter
500
In October, what season is it in South Africa?
What is spring?
500
Why do we not have an eclipse every month/
The moon's orbit is tilted (does not line up with Earth's).
500
Which moon phase occurs when Earth is between the sun and moon?
Full Moon
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