Moon Base
When the Earth is facing the moon, water levels in the ocean do this.
What is rise?
This is the number of days in a year on Earth.
What is 365 Days?
Space rocks that have been caught in Earth's gravity, but do not crash into the Earth .
What is a Meteor?
A rock from space that travels through the Earth's atmosphere is this...
What is a meteor?
this is what would happen to a ball thrown up on the moon.
What is it would go 6 times higher?
This affect causes the change of seasons.
What is the angle the Earth rotates on its axis and the revolutions around the sun.
A space rock that hits the Earth is this.
What is a meteorite?
This is the reason we see different stars in the sky over a period of time
What is revolution around the sun.
A force of attraction between any two objects is called ____________.
What is Gravity.
The tilt of this affects the seasons.
What is axis?
What would most likely happen in a meteorite encounter with Earth?
What is the meteor hits the Earth and makes a crater.
This is the path one object takes around another object.
What is an orbit.
An astronaut can carry a lot more weight on the moon. why?
what is the gravity of the moon is six times weaker than Earth.
The daily changes in length and direction of shadows is caused by this.
What is the position of the Sun as the Earth Rotates on its axis?
This is the reason we do not feel the Earth moving.
What is we move with the Earth as it rotates?
This force causes the rise and fall of the tides
What is gravity? Specifically the gravity of the moon on the oceans of the Earth.
When the moon appears completely dark with no lit part visible from Earth it is called this
What is a new moon?
What are the seasons?
Earth completes one full of these on its axis every 24 hours.
What is a rotation?
What does gravity of the Earth pull towards?
What is the center?