Solar System
The center of the Solar System.
What is the Sun?
Gravitational force depends on what two factors?
Mass and distance
The Earth's month is based on
The moon cycle.
When the Moon appears to get bigger, we call it this.
What is waxing?
Define revolution
Earth orbiting around sun
The Sun is a
What is a star?
Would you weigh more on Earth or the moon, why?
Earth because larger mass so greater gravity
It takes the moon how many days to complete one cycle
29.5
When the Moon appears to get smaller, we call it this.
What is waning?
The movement of Earth in its axis that causes day and night.
What is rotation?
The largest planet in our solar system is
Jupiter
Gravity does what to you on Earth?
Pulls you in towards the core
The Moon revolves around this.
What is the Earth?
The moon contributes to the ________ on Earth
tides
The tilt of the earth
23.5
This has the largest gravitational force in our solar system
The sun
You would weigh the least on which classical planet? (no dwarf planets)
becoming more illuminated v.s less illuminated
The Moon is in this phase during a Solar eclipse.
What is New Moon?
This is the reason for the seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis and it's revolution around the Sun?
The planet you would weigh the most on in our solar system
Jupiter
Describe why you would weigh less in space
Gravity
Moon phases in order
new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent
When the moon is between the Earth and the Sun
new moon
The reason the equator is warm and the poles are cold.
What is solar angle?