Vocabulary
Time Zone/ Seasons
Moon Events
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The Planets
100
What is the imaginary line that passes through Earth's South and North pole?
axis
100
What is the basis of timekeeping on Earth?
Time Zones
100
Name the two types of Eclipse that we can see from Earth.
Lunar eclipse and Solar eclipse
100
Name the Inner planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
100
What is the planet furthest from the sun?
Pluto
200
The sun is a giant ball of very hot gas and is a what?
star
200
What two things effect seasonal changes on Earth?
Earths orbit and the tilt
200
This occurs when one body in space blocks light from reaching another body in space.
Eclipse
200
Name the Outer Planets.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
200
What is the planet that is closest to the sun?
Mercury
300
What is a group of star that make up a pattern?
constellation
300
Name two of the four time zones that make up the US.
Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern
300
What occurs when the bodies line up in this order; Sun, moon, and Earth?
Solar eclipse
300
The inner and the outer planets are separated by a ________________.
Asteroid belt
300
True or False Pluto is the only outer planet that is small and rocky.
true
400
The shapes that the moons changes between are known as?
The moon phases
400
The Earth's orbit around the sun takes ________ days or ________ year.
365 or 1 year
400
What two moon phases do the solar and lunar eclipse occur with?
Full Moon and New Moon
400
Name four moon phases.
Full moon, waxing gibbous, first quarter, waxing crescent, new moon, waning crescent, third quarter, waning gibbous
400
Name six of the 9 planets that we have talked about.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
500
What does the sun, Panets and other objects that revolve around it make up?
The solar system
500
When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere how does the sun strike the Earth?
directly
500
What ocurres what the bodies line up in this order; sun, Earth, and moon?
lunar eclipse
500
Name all nine planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
500
The first four planets of the outer planets are known as what?
The gas giants.
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