Earth's Rotation
The imaginary line that stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole
What is the Axis?
All planets revolve around this object in space
What is the sun?
What percentage of water can be found on Earth?
70%
These three planets are known as the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
It takes ____________ for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis.
The time a planet takes to make one orbit around the sun is called a ____________?
What is a year?
Why is Earth unique?
What is, it is the only planet that has life abundantly
This planet is the closest to the sun.
What is Mercury
This is what the atmosphere protects the Earth from?
What is solar radiation?
What is counter clockwise?
This refers to the Earth because it is "just right" in our Solar System.
The Earth is what type of planet?
What is Terrestrial
These two planets have the asteroid belt in between.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
Other than the atmosphere, what is the other form of protection for the earth?
What is the magnetic field?
The Sun rises in the ___________ and sets in the ___________
What is East and West?
Name a way that the Earth's revolution affects life on Earth.
Seasons, Day and Night
True/False, The Earth is on a tilt?
True
What is Earth
The atmosphere is made up of nitrogen and _________?
What is oxygen?
The axis is on a _________, meaning the Earth does not sit straight up and down.
What is tilt?
True/False, The Earth rotates clockwise around the sun?
False
Earth is believed to be _________ billion years old
What is 4.5 billion years old?
The greater the mass, the ___________ of the gravitational force.
What is greater?
Name one thing that is contributing to the break down of the earth's atmosphere?
What is Global Warming?