Definitions
One complete trip around an object in a circular or nearly circular path
What is a revolution
True or False. Your shadow always points towards the sun/light. Justify (Prove) your answer.
What is false, because your shadow will always point away from the sun/light.
The moon completes one orbit around the Earth in approximately how many days?
The sun and all the objects that orbit around it make up our what?
What is our solar system.
Explain the difference between a revolution and a rotation.
What is, a revolution goes around the sun while a rotation spins.
The act of spinning around an axis
What is a rotation
It's a beautiful Saturday morning, it is 9 AM and you go outside and notice your shadow. What does your shadow look like at this time?
What is long
If the moon looks like it is growing, it is what?
What is waxing.
What are the inner planets?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
It takes how long for the Earth to make a revolution around the sun?
It takes how long for the Earth make one full rotation?
What is approximately 365 days for a revolution and 24 hrs for one complete rotation.
A dark area or figure made when rays of light are blocked by a person or thing
What is a shadow
True or False. Summer is when the sun is the highest in the sky.
What is true
If the moon looks like it's shrinking, it is what?
What is waning
What are the outer planets?
The apparent motion of the Sun in the sky is from
A. west to east
B. east to west
C. north to south
D. south to north
What is B.
What is an axis
What time of day is your shadow the shortest? Explain.
What is midday, because the sun/light is right above you and is shining right on you and therefore your shadow it going be shorter than it would if you were shining it from an angle.
Explain how a full moon is formed. (Think of illustration I gave in class)
What is the moon is on the far side of the earth and the light from the sun is shining on it.
Name all the planets in order.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Explain why we don't feel the rotation of the Earth. (pg. 95)
What is we move with the Earth as it rotates.
When a star or other object in the sky seems to move even though it is Earth that is moving
TCAP QUESTIONS
What is P and T.
Explain how a new moon is formed. (Think of illustration I gave in class)
What is when the moon is in front of the sun and there is no light shining on it. The light is shining on the back making only an outline.
TCAP QUESTION
What is M
Explain how the Earth experiences day and night.
What is the earth experiences daytime when the side of the earth is facing the sun, we experience nighttime when the side of the earth faces away from the sun. This is because the Earth rotates.