Earth
Sun
Moon
This and That
Vocabulary
100
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
100
The word "solar" refers to this object.
What is the "sun"?
100

It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.

What is 27.3 days or about a month?

100
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
100
This word means the spinning of Earth on its axis
What is "rotation"?
200
The shape of the Earth
What is a "sphere"?
200
The sun is a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
200
Solar refers to the sun. This term refers to the moon.
What is "lunar"?
200
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
200
Th point at which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
What is the "solstice"?
300
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365.25 days?
300
The sun rises in this direction.
What is the "east"?
300
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
300
This is a dark-colored relatively flat region of the moon that was once a crater that filled with lava.
What is a "Maria"?
300
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see all of the lit side.
What is "full moon"?
400
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is "summer"?
400
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.
What is a "solar eclipse"?
400
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
400
The sun appears higher in the sky during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
400
As we see less and less of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is "waning"?
500
The imaginary line around which a planet such as Earth spins
What is the "axis"?
500
This is why the summer month's are warmer than the winter months.
What is the sun's rays strike the Earth more"directly" due to the Earth's tilt?
500
The moon affects this part of the Earth, changing it daily on our beaches.
What is the "ocean tides"?
500
We have this special day every 4 years in February because it takes the Earth 365 and 1/4 days to revolve around the sun.
What is "Leap Year Day"?
500
On August 21st, 2017 in central Nebraska, we saw this part of the sun around the edge of the moon during a solar eclipse.
What is the "corona"?
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