Earth in Space Terms
Our Moon
Our Sun
Our Earth
Surprise!
100
Objects in space may appear different depending on where you are viewing them from.
What is Change in Perspective?
100
This lunar object does not give off its own light.
What is the moon? **IN ORDER FOR YOUR TEAM TO GET THE POINTS, YOUR TEAM MUST HOWL AT THE MOON**
100
The Moon appears red during a lunar eclipse for these two reasons.
How Earth’s atmosphere scatters away much of the blue light and the red/orange light travels through the atmosphere?
100
Describe what causes the change in the amount of daylight.
What is Earth’s tilted axis causing each hemisphere to lean toward or away from the Sun during the year.
100
On "A Scale of Excitement" from 1 to 10 (with 10 being the highest), the scale reads this number when walking into Room 118 each day for Science with Ms. Abbott.
What is 10 (or more)?
200
The movement of one object around another object.
What is Orbit? OR What is Revolution?
200
These two terms describe an eclipse.
What is solar and lunar?
200
Describe why we observe how the sun, moon, and stars appear to rise in the eastern sky and set in the western sky.
What is because Earth rotates from west to east?
200
At this point, the position of the Earth represents Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
Position B represents spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
200
Explain why sunsets and sunrises appear more orange/red.
What is blue light scatters away, leaving more red and orange light to reach our eyes.
300
The height of an object in the sky above the horizon.
What is Elevation?
300
A lunar eclipse only happens during this moon phase.
What is during a full moon.
300
When doing the "How does light interact with matter in the atmosphere" experiment, sunlight was represented by this tool.
What is a flashlight?
300
Earth’s tilted axis and Earth revolving around the Sun cause this to happen.
What are the Seasons?
300
Earth rotates, Earth revolves around the Sun, and the Moon revolves around Earth in patterns. Explain the type of pattern.
What is the patterns in the sky are predictable and repeating?
400
The spinning of an object on its axis.
What is Rotation?
400
During a Lunar Eclipse, the Moon appears differently displaying two main colors. Explain.
What is red and orange?
400
This solar object gives life and energy to the earth.
What is the sun? **FOR YOUR TEAM TO GET THE POINTS, YOU MUST ALL SING, "YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE"**
400
This position of the Earth represents the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
Position C represents the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
400
The amount of time it should take to take attendance.
What is one minute or less?
500
The North Star; it stays nearly fixed in the northern sky.
What is Polaris?
500
This event in Manhattan, New York City, is when the setting Sun lines up perfectly with the city’s east-west streets. During this event, the sunlight shines straight down the streets between the buildings, creating a bright glowing effect.
What is Mattanhenge?
500
A solar eclipse might be observed from Earth when the moon is at which position?
What is position 1?
500
Describe how the Earth’s surface reacts to the difference between direct sunlight and sunlight that covers a greater surface.
What is direct sunlight heats Earth’s surface more because the energy is concentrated in a smaller area. Sunlight spread over a larger area is less intense and heats the surface less?
500
Warmer months in the United States occur at the same time as the cooler months in Australia.
What is the tilted toward the sun? The United States and Australia have opposite seasons because they are in opposite hemispheres. When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, the Southern Hemisphere is tilted away.