Words We Use
Early Ideas
Trivia about Moons
Effect on Earth
Time Passes
100
Coalesce is a word that describes this action.
What is to come together and form one mass or whole?
100
The first people to notice the moon.
Who were Joe and Jane Caveman?
100
This planet has the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
100
Water rises or falls four times daily because the moon causes this phenomenon.
What are the tides?
100
The time it takes for the Earth to complete one rotation on its axis is called this.
What is a day?
200
When a body spins on its axis it is called this.
What is rotation?
200
The moon and the sun were related to early religions in this way.
What is “they were worshiped by some cultures?”
200
The four Galilean moons revolve around this planet.
What is Jupiter?
200
This is a peculiarity of the Earth that causes our seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
200
Each trip the moon makes as it completes one revolution around the Earth is called this.
What is one month?
300
One body moves around another body.
What is revolution?
300
He was the first to look at the moon with a telescope?
Who was Galileo?
300
This moon of Saturn is the largest moon in the solar system. W
What is Titan?
300
Our moon affects the rotation of the Earth by doing this.
What is stabilizing its rotation?
300
A lunar month is approximately this long.
What is 28 days or four weeks?
400
An orbit is this.
What is the path of revolution?
400
Some early observers of the heavens thought that this body was a ball of fire.
What is the moon?
400
TThis planet has two natural satellites. (2X for planet and another name for natural satellites.)
WWhat is Mars? What are moons?
400
It takes the moon and these two other bodies to make eclipses. (2X for both)
What are the Earth and the Sun?
400
This is the reason we do not use strictly a lunar month when measuring our year.
What is that dividing 28 days into 365.242 days leaves a remainder?
500
This is the word for the slow wobble of Earth on its axis.
What is precession?
500
According to superstition, this happens when the moon is full.
What is werewolves appear, or people are driven insane—or some other crazy thing?
500
This planet’s moon is the largest in relation to the size of that planet. (2X for planet & moon name.)
What is Earth/What is Luna?
500
Our Moon’s tilt and rotation was possibly caused by this. (2X for the name of this theory.)
What is a Mars-sized body that impacted the Earth long ago? What is the Giant Impact Theroy?)
500
Our Moon benefited ancient men in two major ways. (2X for both)
What are to provide reflected light by night and to use to measure passing time?
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