Earth's Rotation
What does Earth do once every 24 hours?
How long does it take for Earth to orbit the Sun once?
What is one year
What causes daytime and nighttime on Earth?
Earth's rotation.
What are constellations?
What is a group of stars that form to make a pattern
What is a pattern in the sky that repeats every day?
What is daytime and nighttime
(BONUS) Which direction does Earth rotate when viewed from above the North Pole?
What is Counterclockwise.
What is a circle
Where is Earth facing during the daytime?
What is the Sun
Why do constellations appear to move across the sky at night?
What is Earth rotates.
What is a pattern in the sky that repeats every year?
What is Earth rotating around the Sun or different constellations appearing.
Why does it look like the Sun moves across the sky during the day?
What is Earth orbits on its axis.
What causes the seasons on Earth?
What is Earth tilts on its axis as it orbits the Sun.
If it is nighttime where you are, what is happening on the opposite side of Earth?
What is it's daytime
Why do people in the Northern Hemisphere see different constellations than people in the Southern Hemisphere?
Why does the Moon sometimes appear during the day?
What is because the Moon orbits Earth and can be visible when the Sun is up and the Moon's distance from Earth.
If Earth rotated twice as fast, what would happen to the length of one day?
What is a day would be 12 hours, instead of 24.
Why do we see different constellations in the summer than in the Winter?
Why do people in different parts of the world see sunrise and sunset at different times?
What is because Earth rotates, different places face the Sun at different times.
Why do some constellations only appear during certain seasons?
What is because Earth orbits the Sun, our view of the sky changes.
Why does the Sun seem to rise in the east and set in the west?
How many degrees does Earth rotate in one hour?
What is about 15 degrees.
If Earth's orbit were slower, what would happen to the length of a year?
What is a year would be longer.
If Earth stopped rotating, what would happen to day and night?
What is one side would always have daytime, while the other would always have nighttime.
What is for navigation and/or calendars.
How do scientists use sky patterns to tell time and make calendars?
What is scientists observe repeating patterns like Earth's rotation, orbit, and star positions.