Shadows
Seasons
Day and Night
Movement
The night sky
100
What shadows are caused by.
What are a solid object and a source of light?
100
The four seasons
What are spring, summer, fall (autumn), winter?
100
The earth has rotated so that our side faces the sun.
What is day time?
100
The act of spinning around.
What is rotation?
100
A pattern or grouping of stars.
What is a constellation?
200
It happens when light is blocked.
What is a shadow?
200
The Winter solstice is ______________.
What is the shortest day of the year?
200
The earth has rotated so that our side is facing away from the sun.
What is night time?
200
The act of moving around another object.
What is revolution?
200
The reason we can see the moon.
What is the reflection of the sun's light shining on the moon?
300
The time of day when shadows are smallest.
What is noon (or the middle of the day)?
300
The summer solstice.
What is the longest day of the year?
300
Light from the sun falls on this much of the spinning earth.
What is half?
300
The force of gravity from the great mass of the sun causes the earth to do this.
What is the revolution around the sun?
300
What the sun is made of and why it looks like a burning ball.
What is gasses causing a nuclear reaction?
400
The time of day when shadows are longest.
What is morning or evening (or sunrise or sunset)?
400
The time of the year when the day and night are about an equal number of hours (scientific name).
What is the equinox?
400
The time it takes the earth to make one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
400
Another word for revolution.
What is orbit?
400
The reason we see the moon differently and see different constellations over time.
What is the movement (rotation and revolution) of the earth?
500
The largest shadow on earth.
What is nighttime?
500
The reason the northern hemisphere has summer in June, July and August and the Southern hemisphere has summer in December, January, and February.
What is the earth's tilt on its axis?
500
The cause of darkness on one side of the earth.
What is the shadow created by the earth blocking the light from the sun?
500
This causes stronger gravity.
What is more mass?
500
The most easily recognized constellation in our night sky.
What is the big dipper?
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