Earth
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the 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 29 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 a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
The moon is about what size of earth?
1/3
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on 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 1/4 days?
The sun rises in this direction.
The sun does not rise, the Earth rotates
30
Compared to summer, shadows in the winter in the Northern Hemisphere are generally
longer
This is when the earth has it's longest day and longest night.
What is during the solstices
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is "summer"?
The Sun is the one star in our _________
Solar System
The moon appears about the same size at the sun because it is _____ times smaller and ______ times closer
400,400
The sun appears higher in the sky during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
Another name for the north star.
What is polaris
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"?
The moon affects this part of the Earth, changing it daily on our beaches.
What is the "ocean tide"?
The equinoxes occur on the first day of (two possible answers).
spring and fall
When we have summer in Alabama, what season is Australia having?
What is the winter.