Solar System
This object sits at the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
This force keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.
What is Gravity?
This is how long the earth takes to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This is how many phases there are for the moon.
What is 8?
The planets were _______ a long time ago.
What is smaller?
This is how many planets are in our solar system.
What is 8?
Increasing this would eventually cause the orbiting object to crash into the central object.
What is mass?
This is how long it takes for the earth to complete one orbit.
What is 365.25 days?
This is how many moons the earth has.
What is 1?
This is when it would be coldest in the southern hemisphere.
What is June?
This is when the Earth passes between the Moon and sun casting a shadow on the moon.
What is a LUNAR eclipse?
What is the earth's mass?
What is elliptical?
This celestial body creates the phenomenon we experience on the earth as 'Tides'.
What is the moon?
This is how we refer to the longest/shortest days of the year.
What is a solstice?
This is when the Moon passes between the earth and sun casting a shadow on earth.
What is a SOLAR eclipse?
Increasing this would eventually cause the orbiting object to fly out of orbit from the central object.
This is what causes day and night.
What is the rotation of the earth?
This is the shape of the moons orbit.
What is elliptical?
This is how light transfers energy.
What is it gets absorbed?
This is what the solar system began as in one of our video models.
What is the oort cloud?
What is solar elevation.
This is why we don't have an eclipse every month.
What is because the moon's orbit is tilted?
These are days that have equal day and night.
What are equinoxes?