Gravity
What would happen if the gravity between the Sun and Earth increased?
What is the Earth would be pulled closer to the Sun.
What causes the seasons?
What is, the tilt of the Earth and the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
From Earth it is possible to see both sides of the moon?
What is, no.
The definition of rotation.
What is, the spinning of a planet on its axis.
Explain the movements of the Sun, Earth and Moon.
What is, the Sun remains stationary, the Earth revolves around the Sun and the Moon revolves around the Earth.
Describe Newton’s first law of motion.
What is, if the scooter is pushed forward it will continue moving until acted on by an outside force such as friction.
If it is winter in the northern hemisphere, what season would it be in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is, winter.
As you get closer to the equator, does the Earth receive more, less or the same amount of sunlight as the two poles of the Earth.
What is, more sunlight.
What is a force?
What is, a push or pull.
What causes day and night to occur?
What is, the Earth spins on its axis, the side facing the sun expereicnes day while the side turned away experience night
What causes a planet to revolve around the Sun?
What is, the planets straight path in combination with the gravitational pull of the Sun.
It takes this many minutes for sunlight to reach earth
What is 8 minutes?
What causes different phases of he moon?
What is, the position of the Earth, Sun and Moon in relation to each other.
What are the inner planets in order?
What is, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
True or False: the orbit of a planet is really a series of straight continuous lines.
What is true.
This moon phase occurs when the moon is between the earth and sun so that the dark side of the moon faces earth.
What is the new moon.
What are the outer planets in order?
What is, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
How many moons fit in the Earth?
What is 50
What are the inner and outer planets made out of?
What is, inner planets are rocky. The outer planets are made of hydrogen and helium gas.