Science 1
Anything that orbits a planet is called?
What is a satellite?
How does the tilt of Earth's axis affect the length of the day for the hemisphere tilting towards the sun?
Why does the hemisphere tilting towards the sun receive more light for a longer period of time, making daytime longer?
Why is it warm year round near the equator?
Why does sunlight shine more directly on Earth's equator throughout the year?
A person standing the the umbra of the moon will see what during an eclipse?
What is the umbra?
Why do the Stars appear to move from East to West?
Why does Earth rotate from West to East?
How does the tilt of Earth's axis affect the length of a day for the hemisphere tilting away from the sun?
Why does the hemisphere tilting away from the sun receives less light for a shorter period of time, making daytime shorter for them?
Why do Earth's poles have such cold temperatures year round?
What is inertia?
A person standing in the penumbra of the moon during an eclipse will see what?
What is a partial eclipse?
The constellations seem to shift as the seasons change. What causes this?
Why does Earth revolve around the sun so we gradually have a different view of the constellations?
Why does Earth have seasons?
Why does the Earth's axis tilted as it revolves around the sun?
What is it when the moon is in the phases coming from being a full moon?
What is waning?
The strength of the amount of force of gravity depends on what two things?
What is distance and mass?
When do the tides have the biggest consecutive difference between high and low tides?
What is it when the moon, Sun, and Earth are in a straight line causing a Spring Tide?
One complete revolution around the sun on earth takes about how long?
What happens on March 21st in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the fall equinox?
What is it when Earth is going into being a full moon?
What is waxing?
The phases of the moon you see depends on what?
How much of the illuminated side faces Earth is what?
Tides are mainly caused by what?
What is the differences in how much gravity the moon and sun pull on different parts of the Earth?
How does the tilt of Earth's Axis cause season's on Earth?
Why does this cause one hemisphere to tilt towards the sun and receive more sunlight and the other receives less?
What happens on December 21st in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the summer solstice?
All objects attract towards each other due to what?
What is gravity?
What has to happen in order for a solar eclipse to occur?
What is it when the sun is directly between the Sun and Earth?
Water flows towards the high tides, halfway between them causing what?
What is low tides?