This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see all of the lit side.
What is Full Moon?
100
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
100
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is rotate?
200
The sun is considered.....remember it is a hot, glowing sphere of gases that give off energy.
What is a star?
200
The shape of the Earth.
What is a sphere?
200
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 29 days or about a month?
200
We have this special day every 4 years in February because it takes the Earth 365 and 1/4 days to revolve around the sun.
What is Leap Year Day?
200
This word describes a type of clock that uses the sun's shadow to tell time.
What is a sundial?
300
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.
What is a solar eclipse?
300
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
300
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is new moon?
300
What is what causes day and night?
What is Earth's rotation on its axis.
300
An object that is sent into space to communicate with Earth and help us better predict things such as weather.
What is a satellite?
400
What causes the Sun to appear to rise and set?
What is rotation (spinning on its axis).
400
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is summer?
400
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
The movement of the Moon into Earth's shadow
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
A type of calendar used to tell the seasons.
What is Stonehenge.
500
Explain why the moon appears bright at night.
What is the sun shines hitting the moon and reflecting light back to Earth.
500
The imaginary line through the center of the Earth causing the Earth to tilt.
What is the Earth's axis?
500
What causes tides?
Tides are caused by differences in how much the moon pulls on different parts on Earth.
500
For this reason the Egyptians created a 365 day calendar.
What is the Nile river flooded every 365 days. The wanted to known when to plant their crops to make sure that they were planted in time to be watered by the flood waters.
500
The Earth's path, or it's ___________, travels around the Sun.