What does the Earth ROTATE on?
Axis
The moon is responsible for how high and low these are.
Tides
The name for a cluster of stars that forms a shape in the night sky.
Constellation
The number of planets we have in our solar system (not including Pluto).
8
This movement of the Earth causes day and night.
Rotation
It takes the Earth 365 days to complete one of these.
Orbit
Solar Eclipse
This motion of the Earth causes us to see different patterns of stars in the sky throughout the year.
Orbit
This planet is the closest to the sun.
Mercury
Gravity
The phenomenon of seeing an object "disappear" or "sink" as it moves further into the horizon proves that the Earth is _______.
Round
This type of eclipse is one that you can safely look directly at.
Lunar Eclipse
True or false, the sun at the centre of our solar system is a star?
True
This gas giant is the largest planet in our solar system.
Jupiter
If the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, it would be this season in Austrailia.
Winter
Contrary to popular belief, this quality of the Earth is what causes the seasons.
Tilt
During the moon cycle, this phase is the first phase after the New Moon and would be visible from Canada as a thin strip of light on the right side of the moon.
Waxing Crescent Moon
If a star we see in the night sky is 100 light years away, how old is the light that we see in the exact moment that we view the star?
100 years
Neptune
When the sun and moon are lined up in a straight line, it causes a greater fluctuation in the high and low tides. What is the name for this type of tide?
Spring Tide
This is the age of the Earth in years.
4.5 billion years
The term used to describe why we only see one side of the moon.
Tidal Locking
This is the name for the phenomenon that happens at the end of a star's life that causes it to expand and grow beyond its limits and inevitably explode.
Super Nova
In our solar system, light from the sun takes approximately this many minutes to reach the Earth.
This velocity is the speed of light.
300 000 km/second