Earth
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
The word "solar" refers to this object.
What is the "sun"?
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 27.3 days or about a month?
When the moon phase is waning, then the light is where?
What is on the left?
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is "rotating"?
How many degrees is the Earth currently tilted on it's axis.
What is 23.5 degrees
The sun is a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
Solar refers to the sun. This term refers to the moon.
What is "lunar"?
When the moon phase is waxing, then the light is where?
What is on the right?
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole and always faces the north star
What is the "axis"?
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
Why does the sun appear to move across the sky?
What is because the Earth rotates on it's axis.
What type of moon phase would you see no light from Earth
What is a "new moon"?
This term explains why we have day and night
What is Earth's rotation on it's axis.
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see all of the lit side.
What is "full moon"?
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is "summer"?
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.
What is a "solar eclipse"?
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
The moon produces no light, yet it shines at night, why?
What is The moon reflects light from the sun
This is another name for the North Star
What is "polaris"?
The imaginary line horizontally around the middle of the Earth.
What is the "equator"?
How many Earths can you fit across the diameter of the sun?
What is 109
A lunar eclipse occurs during this moon phase.
What is a full moon.
Why don't we have a lunar eclipse each month?
What is because the moon orbits in an elliptical direction.
By observing "sunspots" on the moon, scientists were able to determine this.
What is the "sun rotates"?