Seasons
Day and Night
Planets
Telescope
Terms
100
What is the main cause for the seasons?
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis
100
What causes day and night?
What is the rotation of the Earth.
100
Which planet is the closest to the sun?
What is Mercury
100
What object should people NOT look at with a telescope?
What is the Sun
100
Something that repeats continuously in the same pattern
What is cycle
200
When the Northern Hemisphere tilts towards the sun, Georgia is having what season?
What is Summer
200
How many hours are in one Earth day?
What is 24 hours
200
What separates the Inner planets from the Outer planets? What planets are separated by this?
What is the asteroid belt. Mars and Jupiter.
200
How many lenses does the simplest telescope have?
What is two.
200
Imaginary line that extends out from Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole at a 23.5 degree angle.
What is axis
300
At what degree is the Earth's tilt?
What is 23.5 degrees
300
The Earth spins very quickly. It spins more than 1,000 miles per hour, but we do not feel it spinning. Why do we not feel this?
What is speed is constant and does not change.
300
What planet takes the longest to orbit the sun?
What is Neptune
300
This type of telescope uses GLASS lenses to collect light and form an image.
What is a refracting telescope
300
The path an object follows as it revolves around another object.
What is orbit
400
If the Northern Hemisphere is directly in the sun, what season is it the Southern Hemisphere?
What is Winter
400
The sun rises in the _______ and sets in the _______.
What is East and West because the Earth spins East!
400
What are the difference between the Outer and Inner planets?
What is the Outer planets are made of gas, and the Inner planets rock
400
This type of telescope uses MIRRORS to collect light and form an image.
What is reflecting telescope
400
To turn like a top or spin. This movement by the Earth causes day and night.
What is rotation
500
What are the four seasons?
What is Summer, Spring, Winter, and Fall
500
People on the beaches in Georgia enjoy sunrises over the ocean. People on California beaches view ocean sunsets. This difference is caused by...
What is Earth's rotation
500
What is the order of the planets from the closest to the sun to the farthest?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
500
What are telescopes used for?
What is make far away objects look larger and clearer
500
To move around another object. This movement by the Earth's tilt on its axis causes the seasons.
What is revolution
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