Moon phases
Number of moon phases
What is 8?
Season occur because of this
What is Earth's tilt
How many miles are between the sun and earth?
The idea of how our solar system formed
What is the solar nebula hypothesis?
Location on Earth that receives the most direct sunlight and does not experience seasons.
What is the equator
There are two types of eclipses.
What is solar and lunar?
Caitlyn lives in Australia. She experiences this season in August.
What is winter
The moon creates these within Earth's waters
What are tides?
Total number of planets found in our solar system
What is 8?
Before becoming a planets they are called this
What is a planetesimal?
When less then half of the moons lit portion is visible on the right side.
What is a waxing crescent?
What is revolution?
When the sun and moon are aligned directly with the Earth, what type of tide occurs during high tide?
What is neap tide?
Division between the first four and last four planets
What is the asteroid belt?
The second furthest planet in our solar system
What is Uranus?
The alignment for the earth, moon, and sun during a full moon.
What is the sun, earth and then moon?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete one full rotation
What is one day?
It takes this long for light from the sun to reach Earth
What is 8 minutes?
The four planets closest to the sun are also called this.
What are the inner planets/terrestrial/rocky planets?
What is 95?
An equinox is
When an equal amount of day and night occur (fall and spring)
During this season we (Northern Hemisphere) are closest to the sun.
What is winter?
The moon is a natural type of this that revolves around a bigger object.
What is a satellite?
This is what all planets in our solar system have in common.
What is revolving around the sun?
This process must happen before a star can officially be called a star.
What is nuclear fusion?