Earth
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
What is the largest star in our solar system?
What is the "sun"?
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 27 days or about a month?
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
There are 8 main ones of these in our solar system (there used to be 9...).
What are "planets"?
Earth spinning around its own axis is called this.
What is a "rotation"?
All objects in our solar system do this around the sun.
What is "revolve" or "orbit"?
True or false: the moon rotates at about the same speed as the Earth.
What is "true"?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete one full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
What is the "axis"?
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365?
The sun's light takes this long to reach Earth
What is the "8 minutes"?
During this eclipse, the moon looks completely black?
What is a "solar"?
Put in order from smallest to largest: universe, solar system, galaxy
What is "solar system, galaxy, universe"?
The name of our galaxy?
What is "Milky Way"?
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is "summer"?
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.
What is a "solar eclipse"?
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and has a reddish color.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
The sun appears higher in the sky and daylight hours are longer during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth toward the sun.
What is "summer"?
Solar eclipses happen during this part of the day?
What is "daylight"?
The imaginary line horizontally around the middle of the Earth.
What is the "equator"?
This is how the sun's rays strike the Earth in the summer.
What is "directly"?
How many phases of the moon are there each month?
What is "8"?
There are these many galaxies in the universe
What is "100 billion"?
Final Jeopardy Question:
What planet is rotating on its side?
What is "Uranus"?