Earth
Sun
Moon
Rotation vs. Revolution
Vocabulary
100
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth/revolution?
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 29 days or about a month?
100
tilting away from the sun will cause fall and winter
revolution
100
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is "rotating"?
200
The shape of the Earth
What is a "sphere"?
200
True or False: The sun is a star.
True
200
Solar refers to the sun. Is it true or false that lunar refers to the moon?
True
200
Earth does this in 24 hours.
rotation
200
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
What is the "axis"?
300
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
One year
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
Earth spins at a constant speed.
Rotation
300
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see it completely lit.
What is "full moon"?
400
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is "summer"?
400
This energy comes from the sun.
What is a "solar energy"?
400
Explain why we have moon phases.
The moon orbits the earth, and as it does, different amounts of sunlight reflect off of the moon, causing us to see different shapes or phases.
400
The sun appears higher in the sky during the summer because of the tilt of the earth.
Revolution.
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 horizontally around the middle of the Earth.
What is the "equator"?
500
Name one benefit of the Sun.
Sun provides heat/light for Earth/plants
500
Explain why we might go outside at night and see no moon in the sky.
The moon is in its new moon phase, which means that no sunlight is reflecting off of the moon, causing us to be unable to see a moon.
500
The sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west.
Rotation.
500
This takes one year for the Earth to complete.
Revolution.
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