Seasons
The Moon
Tides
Hot Chips
Chapter 2
100
The tilt of Earth's axis is responsible for ________________________.
What is the changing seasons?
100
It takes ________________ for the moon to complete its cycle of phases.
What is about 28 days?
100
Earth's ocean tides are caused by ______________.
What is the gravitational attraction of the Moon and the Sun?
100
Earth makes one revolution around the Sun every ________________.
What is 365 days or 1 year?
100
On Earth, water exists as a _________________.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
200
Summer occurs on the hemisphere of Earth that is ___________________________.
What is tilted towards the sun?
200
Describe a New Moon.
What is the Moon is not visible? or What is the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun?
200
The gravitational pull of the Moon has a greater effect than the pull of the Sun on Earth's tides because _______________________.
What is the Moon is closer to Earth?
200
Earth travels around the Sun. This is called a _________________.
What is revolution?
200
The smallest unit of an element is an ________________.
What is an atom?
300
Name two countries that experience winter at the same time.
What is Canada and the United States of America?
300
A full Moon seems to temporarily darken as Earth passes between the Moon and the Sun. This situation is called a __________________.
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
Most coastal areas have ___________ high tides and ____________ low tides each day.
What is 2 and 2?
300
The Moon is directly between Earth and the Sun. What type of eclipse can occur?
What is a solar eclipse?
300
The French Scientist credited with coming up with the idea of the atom is ___________________.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
400
The Earth is colder at the poles because _______________________.
What is Earth's surface is more tilted and it does not receive as much direct sunlight?
400
Describe the motion of the Moon and its relationship to Earth.
What is the Moon orbits Earth?
400
What is a neap tide? When does it occur?
What is the Earth, Sun and Moon form right angles and high tides are low and low tides are high?
400
During the ________________ phase of the Moon, less of the Moon's near side is lit each night.
What is the waning phase?
400
All things on earth are made of ___________________.
What are elements?
500
A __________________ is a day when Earth's rotation axis is the. most toward or away from the Sun
What is a solstice?
500
As the moon moves from the new moon phase to full moon phase, you see _______________________.
What is an increasing amount of the lighted side of the moon?
500
A spring tide is ____________________. It occurs when __________________.
What is the greatest difference between high and low tides and the Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in a line.
500
The type of energy that increases as you stretch a rubber band.
What is elastic potential energy?
500
The amount of space an object takes up is its __________________.
What is volume?
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