Earth
Earth orbiting the Sun is called
What is revolution?
This causes the Earth's seasons
What is the tilt of the Earth on its axis?
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"?
Earth spinning on its axis is called
What is "rotation"?
What is the season in the hemisphere that is pointed toward the Sun?
What is summer?
The moon orbits
What is the Earth?
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 days?
When it is Winter in the United States, what season is it in Africa?
What is the "summer"?
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
The phase of the moon is determined by
What is how much of the sunlit side of the moon faces the Earth?
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see all of the lit side.
What is "full moon"?
Earth's rotation causes
What is "day and night"?
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 cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
The sun appears higher in the sky during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
As we see less and less of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is "waning"?
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"?
What causes the moon to give off light?
What is "It reflects the light from the Sun?"
The different shapes of the moon that can be seen from Earth are called
What is "Phases of the Moon"?