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A unit of length that astronomers use for measuring distances within the solar system. One astronomical unit is the average distance between the Earth and the sun.

Astronomical Unit (AU)

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An object's spinning motion on its own axis

What is rotation?

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The darkest part of a shadow

What is an Umbra?

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Four different times during the year with different types of weather.

What are seasons?

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Bill Nye Video Question

https://youtu.be/Lrhthje6A5A?t=207

Play Unit 3:45 

What season would it be in the Northern Hemisphere?

What is Summer?

200

A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction

What is the Galaxy?

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An invisible line around which an object rotates, or spins.

What is a planets axis?

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The large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun.

What is our Moon!

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The part of Earth south of the equator. 

Half of the Earth north of the equator

What is the Southern Hemisphere?

What is the Northern Hemisphere?

200

Moonlight is an incorrect term.  Why?

The moon reflects the light from the Sun!

300

A force that attracts a body towards the center of Earth, or towards another physical body having mass.

What is Gravity?

300

The path an object follows as it moves around another one.

What is to orbit?

300

The apparent shape of the moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from Earth.

What is a Lunar Phase?

300

An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth dividing Northern and Southern hemispheres

What is the Equator?

300

What is the correct alignment during a solar eclipse?

Sun, Moon, Earth

400

A celestial body that is in orbit around the sun

What is a planet?
400

The movement of a planet around the sun

What is revolution?

400

Occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth align so that the moon passes into Earth's shadow.

What is a Lunar Eclipse?

400

If it is summer in the southern hemisphere, what is the season in the northern hemisphere?

What is Winter?

400

What force exists between the bodies that causes the tides?

What is Gravity?

500

The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity

What is momentum?
500

What are the names and the order of the planets in our solar system?

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune! 

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When the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow on Earth that either fully or partially blocks the Sun’s light.

What is a solar eclipse?

500

The Earth rotates on its axis one every

What is 24 hours

500

What are the three types of planets in our Solar System?

Terrestrial, Gas Giants, Ice Giants

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