Vocab 1
The star at the center of the solar system that supplies heat and light.
What is the sun?
Cause: The Earth's Rotation
The period of time when sunlight is shining on a part of the Earth.
What is daytime?
These two things are the reason we have seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth on its axis and the revolution of Earth around the Sun?
A natural satellite that orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
Cause: The shadows created by the sun as it moves across the sky.
What are shadow clocks?
The number of hours in one day.
What is 24?
During this season the sun rises later and sets earlier.
What is winter?
An imaginary line around which a sphere rotates.
What is an axis?
What is seasons.
This happens every morning in the East.
What is Sunrise?
During this season the sun rises earlier and sets later.
What is summer?
The path an object takes as it revolves around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
Cause: The Earth's revolution around the sun.
This happens every evening in the West.
What is sunset?
During this season shadows tend to be longer and more stretched out because the sun stays lower in the sky.
What is winter?
The name of the galaxy that our solar system is in.
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
Cause: Your hemisphere on Earth is titled away from the sun.
What is winter time?
The dark time on Earth.
What is nighttime?
During these two seasons Earth is in the same position.
What are fall and spring?