Rotation/ Revolution
Climate/ Weather
Water Cycle
Tides/ Seasons
Sun, Earth, and Moon
100
The amount of time for the Earth to rotate on its axis.
What is 24 hours or one day?
100
Over a long period of time you are able to determine this for a particular region.
What is climate?
100
The place where most of the water in the water cycle comes from.
What are oceans?
100
Tides take place because of the gravity of this object.
What is the moon?
100
Of the three objects, this one has the least amount of gravity.
What is the moon?
200
The number of days it takes for a full moon to reappear.
What is 28 days.
200
A month or two of high temperatures in a city.
What is weather?
200
Without this there would be no water cycle.
What is the sun?
200
A time when the water along the shore becomes much lower and begins to recede.
What is low tide?
200
The time of day that your shadow appears directly in front of you if the sun is at your back.
What is noon or 12 o'clock?
300
The reason that the stars appear to move across the sky.
What is rotation?
300
The name of a person who predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
When water vapor turns into a liquid to make clouds.
What is condensation?
300
The primary reason for the seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
300
Without this you would NEVER see the moon in the sky.
What is the Sun, or sunlight?
400
The part of Earth that is experiencing darkness.
What is 1/2 ?
400
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
The four ways that water can fall to Earth, also known as precipitation.
What rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
400
In the month of December, the Southern Hemisphere points toward this object.
What is the sun?
400
The main thing that the moon and Earth have in common.
What are landforms?
500
The amount of time it takes for all four seasons to occur.
What is one year.
500
The direction of a storm that moves from Montana to Illinois.
What is west to east?
500
The Sun heats up the oceans and causes the water to change into this form.
What is water vapor?
500
The place where the most dramatic tides in the world take place.
What is the Bay of Fundy?
500
As you move further away from the Sun, this changes dramatically on each of the planets.
What is temperature?
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