Investigation 1
Investigation 2
Investigation 3
Investigation 4
Vocabulary
100
The length of a shadow when the sun is high in the sky.
What is short?
100
The different phases of the moon are caused by this.
What is the moon revolving around Earth?
100
The gas giant plants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
100
The cause of the different seasons on Earth.
What is the revolution of the Earth around the sun and the tilt of the Earth on its axis?
100
The force of attraction between two objects
What is gravity?
200
The direction shadows point in the early morning.
What is West?
200
The darkest phase of the moon.
What is new moon?
200
The reason the Earth orbits the sun.
What is gravity?
200
An array of stars that form a predictable pattern.
What is a constellation?
200
A huge region beyond the gas giant planets, made up of different-size icy chunks of matter
What is the Kuiper belt?
300
The direction the Earth spins on its axis.
What is counter clockwise (west to east)?
300
The length of a complete lunar cycle.
What is four weeks?
300
The part of the solar system that lies between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
300
Another name for the North Star.
What is Polaris?
300
A region in space without light that has a strong gravitational pull
What is a black hole?
400
Two ways that shadows change during the day.
What are length and direction?
400
The number of stars that can be seen with unaided eyes.
What is 2,000?
400
The planet with the most moons?
What is Jupiter?
400
The constellations appear to move across the sky during the year because of this.
What is the Earth's revolution around the sun?
400
When Earth passes exactly between the Moon and the Sun
What is a lunar eclipse?
500
The day of the year that the sun is lowest on the horizon.
What is December 21st?
500
The distance from the Earth to the moon in Earth diameters.
What is 30 Earth diameters?
500
The hottest planet.
What is Venus?
500
The reason telescopes are put on top of mountains or in space.
What is to get above the light on Earth and to get above much of the atmosphere?
500
The direction something points.
What is orientation?
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