Earth
This causes the Earth's seasons. (give the number as well!)
What is the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth?
The word "solar" refers to this object.
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"?
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is "rotating"?
The shape of the Earth
What is a "sphere"?
The sun is called this.
What is a "star"?
Solar refers to the sun. This term refers to the moon.
What is "luna/lunar"?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
Why are planets spaced out?
What is the "to avoid getting destroyed by other orbiting planets"?
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.(Give in days and months)
What is 365 1/4 days? 12 months
What is the sun's gravitational field caused by it's mass.
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
What order of magnitude is 2500?
What is a "4"?
If a planet is taken out of a solar systems gravitational field it is now known as an _____.
What is "exoplanet"?
When the earth is closer to the sun it is known as this?
What is "perihelion"?
Can there be more than one star in a solar system? Explain.
What is no because if there were two, they would have too much of a gravitational pull towards one another that they would crash into one another.
The "light" from the moon comes from this. Explain why we see different phases.
What is the sun and the moon's orbit causing us to see different parts of the moon's face.
Describe Kepler's 1st Law.
What is the orbits occur in non perfect circles known as ellipses?
Is a planet a satellite? Explain.
What is "yes because it orbits around the sun"?
When the Earth is closer to the sun it is traveling __________ because of ___________.
What is the faster because of a stronger gravitational pull?
Why does the sun hit the Earth in different ways?
What is the tilt causes the rays to hit the earth at different time frames due to different distances?
The moon affects this part of the Earth, changing it daily on our beaches.
What is the "ocean tide"?
Write 10,000 years in scientific notation.
What is "1.0*10^4"?
123 km is ________m.
What is the "0.123m"?