This is the source of all light and heat on Earth. Without it we would not survive.
What is the SUN?
100
This is another name for SPINS. It's what the Earth does on its axis.
What is ROTATE?
100
This is another word for revolve.
What is orbit?
100
It takes this long for the moon to orbit the Earth (2 answers).
What is 29 days or about one month?
100
Use the tide table below to answer.
Monday High 8:30am
Monday Low 12:00pm
Tuesday High 8:40am
Tuesday Low 12:10pm
If the table continues, what will be Wednesday's High Tide?
What is 12:20pm?
200
This is a repeated pattern so it happens again and again.
What is a CYCLE?
200
The Earth rotates on its axis every ________ hours. This also means _______ day(s).
What is twenty-four? One day?
200
This cycle occurs once every year.
What is the Seasons cycle?
200
During what phase is the moon full and bright?
What is a full moon?
200
The tides are caused by the gravitational pull of this.
What is the moon?
300
These are the cycles we have studied this year only. There are four of them!
What are Day and Night, Seasons, Moon Phases, and Tides?
300
The Earth rotates on its axis to cause what cycle?
What is Day and Night?
300
There are ______ months and ______ days in a year.
What are 12 months and 365 and 1/4 days?
300
This is the phase of the moon where it looks like a half circle.
What is the first or last quarter?
300
There are this many high tides and this many low tides each day.
What are two high tides and two low tides?
400
Name any other cycle you have learned about or that happens in your life.
What is animal/plant life cycles, morning routine, breakfast-lunch-dinner, etc.
400
If it is daytime in Virginia, what time of day is it on the other side of the world?
What is nighttime?
400
The Earth revolves around this.
What is the sun?
400
This is the reason why we are able to see the moon.
What is the moon reflects light from the sun?
400
If you built a sandcastle by the ocean at low tide, this would happen to it at high tide.
What is it would get washed away?
500
This is what the sun is really made of.
What is a burning ball of gases.
500
This is the imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth and it is what the Earth spins on.
What is the axis?
500
This seasons comes after fall.
What is winter?
500
This is the name we call for the changing looks of the moon.
What is moon phases?
500
As the moon revolves around the earth, this pulls on the Earth's oceans to cause the tides.