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Put the Earth, Sun, and Moon in order from smallest to largest.
Moon, Earth, Sun
The sun rises in the ____ and sets in the ______.
East, west
We experience the most amount of sunlight in the _____.
Summer
Earth does this one time in 24 hours
Rotate
A dirty ball of rock and ice in space
Comet
The Earth is ____ times the size of the moon.
4x
Shadows are longest at what time/s of the day?
Beginning and the end of the day
The season/s when daylight and night are about the same amount of time is/are?
Spring and Fall
Earth does this 1 time in 365 days
Revolve
A _____ is another name for a shooting star.
Meteor
The sun is ____ times the size of the moon.
400x
Shadows appear _____ of the sun.
Opposite
Earth's tilt.
When we are tilted towards the sun = summer
When we are tiled away from the sun = winter
The degree of tilt for the earth is
23.5
The oval like shape that planets travel in is called
ellipse/ elliptical shape
The moon is located about ____ "earth's" away from the earth.
30x
The sun appears to move across the sky because of _______.
Earth's rotation
Where on Earth is there an equal amount of sunlight and night all year round?
Near the equator
One half of the earth (split by the equator) is called
A hemisphere
Gravity between objects depends on
Mass and distance
If the Earth were 12cm in diameter, the Moon would be?
3cm
When the sun is the highest in the sky creating the shortest shadow, we call this?
Solar Noon
The day in which the hours of daylight equal the hours of night is called ______ and a day in which the hours of daylight are longest and shortest of the year is called a _______.
Equinox, Solstice
Elevation about sea level
Altitude
Surface gravity depends on
mass and planetary radius