Properties of the Earth
Daylight patterns
Hodgepodge/Sun
Solar System
Seasons
100
Spinning on an axis is called this.
What is to rotate?
100
A location on Earth that always has equal amounts of daylight and darkness.
What is the equator?
100

The sun is a big, hot ball made of ____________.

What is gas?

100
The largest planet in the our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
100
In the summer the North Pole is ___________________ the sun.
What is tilted toward?
200
It takes this long for the Earth to revolve around the sun.
What is a year (365 1/4) days?
200
Daylight hours begin at __________________ and end at _________________.
What is sunrise and sunset.
200
The sun's ____________________ pulls on all planets, keeping them in their orbits.
What is gravity?
200
This is now the classification group to which Pluto belongs.
What is a dwarf planet?
200
In a given year the N. Pole experiences _______________ of daylight and ________________ of darkness.
What are 6 months and 6 months?
300
This is the angle at which Earth is tilted.
What is 23.5 degrees.
300
The day on which the northern hemisphere experiences its longest daylight hours.
What is the summer solstice or roughly June 21st?
300
As the Earth rotates NJ experiences changes in this.
What is daylight and darkness?
300
Earth is the _____________ planet from the sun.
What is third?
300
These types of the sun's rays hit the Equator, thereby increasing the solar energy received at the Equator.
What are direct/high solar angle rays?
400
Most scientists provide this reasoning to explain why Earth and other planets are tilted.
What is planet was hit by another object in space during its formation?
400

The two days of the year where every place on Earth has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.

What are the spring and fall equinox?

400

This is one of the two gases found in Earth's atmosphere make up the sun.

What is hydrogen or helium?

400
This is roughly the day on which Earth is closest to the sun.
What is January 3,4,5...?
400
Together, Earth's __________________ and its ______________ create differing seasons on parts of the Earth.
What are revolution and tilt?
500

The orbit of Earth around the sun is not exactly circular but rather this shape.

What is elliptical?

500
Rahway NJ has roughly 9 hours of daylight today. A city located at 41 degrees south would have this many.
What is 15 hours of daylight?
500

The type of nuclear reaction that produces all of the sun's energy.

What is nuclear fusion?

500
The greater a planet's _________________, the greater its gravitational pull.
What is mass?
500
The Gregorian version of this adds 1 day every four years.
What is a calendar?
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