Earth's Movements
This motion causes the earth to have day and night.
What is rotation?
This is the Earth's natural satellite. It affects the tides.
What is the moon?
When the moon is between the sun and the Earth, and the moon casts a shadow on the Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
This is the correct order of the moon phases.
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, third or last quarter, waning gibbous, waning crescent, new moon.
Name the planets in order from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
This causes the Earth to have a calendar year.
What is revolution around the sun?
How our sun classified in size as a star.
What is a medium-sized star?
Groups of stars that form a pattern.
What is a constellation?
About 27.5 days.
About 8 minutes to the Earth.
How long does the sun's light take to get to Earth?
The season where the Earth's northern axis is tilted towards the sun.
What is summer?
The force that makes the earth orbit the sun.
What is gravity?
Gases.
What are stars made of?
What is 1/2 (one half)?
Because there's no air to travel through.
Why is space silent?
When one object moves around another object in a predictable pattern.
What is an orbit?
It's about 109 times greater in size than our Earth.
How big is the sun?
Because the sun is too bright.
Why can't we see stars (or sometimes the moon) during the day?
About 5 degrees.
This is the hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
The season where the Earth's northern axis is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
About 4.5 billion years.
How old is our sun?
Because some stars are farther away or because some stars are larger.
Why do some stars look brighter?
When the Earth is between the sun and the moon, and the Earth casts a shadow on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
We have 8.
How many planets are in our solar system?