MOON
EARTH
Vocabulary
TIME
STARS
100
Indentations found all over the moon caused by asteroids hitting the moon.
What are craters?
100
The earth is made up mostly of this substance, seen as blue from space.
What is the ocean or water?
100
Term for a planet is traveling around the sun.
What is revolve?
100
It takes 365.25 days, or a year.
How long does it take for the Earth to revolve around the sun.
100
This star, made up of mostly of the gases hydrogen and helium, is the closest to Earth.
What is the Sun?
200
The moon phase where the moon is getting complete light from the sun.
What is a full moon?
200
The earth is the third what?
What is planet from the sun?
200
The path the moon takes around the Earth and the Earth takes around the sun.
What is orbit?
200
It takes one day.
How long does it take for the Earth to rotate one time.
200

A group of stars formed into a shape are called these.

What is a constellation?
300
The shadow of this creates phases of the moon.
What is Earth?
300

The earth is divided into these two halves, a northern and southern one.

What is a hemisphere?
300
When an object in space passes through the shadow of another object in space.
What is an eclipse?
300

Our season in which the northern hemisphere tilted toward the sun.

What is summer?

300

This constellation is shaped like a hunter

What is orion?
400
The phase of the moon where the moon is almost completely dark.
What is a new moon?
400

The earth is surrounded (and protected) by many clear gases called this.

What is the atmosphere?
400
The Earth and the moon spin on one.
What is an axis?
400
it takes 27.3 days.
How long does it take for the moon to make one rotation.
400

This constellation is shaped like a bear

What is ursa major or minor?

500
When the moon is in this shape, it looks like a sliver.
What is a (waxing or waning) crescent?
500
Much of Earth is worn away by wind and water, which is called this.
What is weathering?
500
This person used a telescope to observe the planets, including Jupiter's moons.
Who is Galileo?
500
The time in the winter and summer when daylight hours are at their greatest or fewest.
What is the solstice (winter or summer)?
500

The reason we can see different constellations in the sky during different seasons of the year.

What is because the Earth is moving through space as it revolves around the sun?

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