The Earth and the Sun
The Sun sets below this.
What is the horizon?
These are the materials you need to make a shadow.
What are a light source and an object to block the light?
A group of stars that form an identifiable pattern.
What is a constellation?
The force that causes a pen to fall to the ground when released.
What is gravity?
What we call the Moon traveling or orbiting around the Earth.
What is revolving?
The meaning of rotation
What is spinning on its axis?
The Sun’s position in the sky when a shadow is its shortest of the day
What is at its highest point in the sky?
The reason some stars appear brighter than others even though they are the same size and brightness.
What is they are closer?
The reason the Sun has more gravity than the Earth.
What is the Sun has more mass than the Earth?
The length of time it takes the Moon to revolve around the Earth.
What is about a month?
Where the Sun appears to set
What is the West?
The times of day when the shadows are at their longest.
What is sunrise and sunset?
The direction the stars rise.
What is east?
The Earth’s gravitational pull on the Moon causes the Moon to revolve around the Earth in this amount of time.
What is one month?
The Moon appears to set in this direction.
What is west?
This causes the Sun to appear to rise, move across the sky and set.
What is the Earth’s rotation?
The position of the Sun when your shadow is in the east.
What is the west?
Stargazers can only see Orion the Hunter in the winter because of this.
What is the Earth’s revolution around the Sun?
One thing that the Sun’s pull on Earth causes.
What is the Earth’s revolution around the Sun?
The reason the Moon revolves around the Earth and not the Sun.
What is the Moon is closer to the Earth than the Sun so the Earth’s gravitational pull is stronger on the Moon?
In addition to causing the Sun “to rise and set”, the Earth’s rotation also causes this.
What is day and night?
This causes the length and position/orientation of a shadow to change during the day.
What is the Earth’s rotation?
Leo the lion can only be seen in this season.
What is spring?
The maximum distance that two objects can be for their gravitational pull to work.
What is infinity or what is there is no maximum distance?
The reason we can sometimes see the Moon during the day and sometimes during the night.
What is the Moon travels around the Earth as the Earth rotates on its axis causing the Moon to sometimes be on the lighted side of the Earth and sometimes be on the darkened side of the Earth?