Seasons
The earth is in its revolution around the sun where the northern hemisphere is leaning away from the sun. What season would it be in the southern hemisphere?
Summer
When is the Summer Solstice?
The earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees.
cold mixture of dust and ice that gives up a long trail of light as it approaches the sun
comet
What is gravity?
A - A type of applied force
B - A force of repulsion between objects
C - A force of attraction between objects
D - A force that only large objects exert
C - A force of attraction between objects
The earth is in its revolution around the sun where the northern hemisphere is leaning towards the sun. What season would it be in the southern hemisphere?
winter
When is the Winter Solstice?
December 21st or 22nd
What causes Earth's seasons?
Earth's seasons are caused or created because the earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees in relation to the sun. As the earth revolves around the sun, the earth receives more or less direct sunlight creating seasons.
small, irregular, rocky objects that orbit the sun
asteroid
Mass and Distance
The earth is in its revolution around the sun where the southern hemisphere is leaning away from the sun. What season would it be in the northern hemisphere?
summer
When is the Autumnal Equinox?
September 22nd or 23rd
What causes day and night?
Earth has day and night because of earth's rotation. As it rotates, the part of the earth that is facing the sun is experiencing day light and the side that is facing away from the sun is experiencing night.
The gravitational force exerted on an object
weight
What might happen to the earth if its orbit moved farther away from the sun?
The sun's gravitational pull on the earth would decrease.
When is the Vernal Equinox?
March 20th
inward
the amount of matter in an object
mass
Which of the following is an example of the law of inertia?
A- A rocket taking off from Earth
B - A crash test dummy flies through the windshield in a collision
C - A small rock skips on a pond faster than a large rock
D- A soccer ball accelerates faster than a bowling ball when kicked
B - A crash test dummy flies through the windshield in a collision
Write the sentence we learned to remember the order of the planets, and also write the planets in order from the sun outward.
My very eager mother just served us nachos.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Inertia is the tendency of an object to resist a change in its ____________
motion
giant ball of hot gas, mainly composed of Hydrogen and Helium
Which of the following is not a gas giant?
A - Jupiter
B - Uranus
C - Mars
D - Saturn
C - Mars