Effects on Earth due to the change in the amount of sunlight caused by teh tilt of Earth's axis as it revolves around the sun.
What is the definition of seasons?
100
Each year Earth moves around..
What is the Sun.
100
A large object in space that revolves around the Sun.
What is planet.
200
The imaginary line through the center of a planet on which the planet rotates.
What is axis.
200
Difference in the earth and moon?
a. Earth has craters and the moon does not.
b. Earth has water and the moon does not.
What is b. water
200
What causes the seasons?
What is "Earth revolves around the sun."
200
Where does land get it's heat?
What is "heat from the sunlight."
200
The appears to rise and set each day because...
What is "Earth rotates on its axis."
300
What are the order of the planets?
What is mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, pluto
300
The moon stays in orbit around the Earth because of..
What is gravity.
300
During summer, part of Earth is titled most (toward the sun/away from the sun).
What is toward the sun.
300
Gases surrounding Earth and the Sun.
What is atmosphere.
300
If the sun is overhead, your shadow will be very long. T/F
What is False.
400
Which are the rocky planets?
What is mercury, venus, earth, mars, sun
400
Rise and fall in the surface level of Earth 's ocean water caused mainly by the pull of the Moon.
What is tides.
400
During the winter, part of Earth is tilted (toward the sun/away from the sun)?
What is away from the sun.
400
Earth reflects light from the sun and rotates counterclockwise arooung the sun. T/F
What is true
400
It gets dark at night because..
What is "Earth spins on it's axis."
500
Spinning motion of an object around its own axis
What is rotate
500
Name the phases of the moon in order beginning with new moon.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter or waxing half moon, waxing gibeous, full moon, waning gibeous, last quarter or waxing half moon, waning crescent.
500
In the Northern Hemisphere, during the summer..
a. North Pole is pointed toward the sun
b. day and night are teh same length
What is a. North Pole is pointed toward the sun
500
If Earth is a satelite of the Sun. What is a satelite of the Earth?