Is it made of cheese??
This is the amount of time it takes for the moon to make one revolution around the Earth.
What is every 29.5 days.
Why do the positions of constellations appear to change each month?
What is because the Earth rotates each night, and revolves each year. This causes the stars to appear to move across the sky, and different constellations move across each month.
Is the statement, "without gravity, all of the planets in our solar system would float away aimlessly" true or false?
What is true. Gravity from the sun is what keeps all of the planets in "check" in the solar system.
When part of the Earth is tilted closer to the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is summer.
This is how long it takes for the moon to move from the new moon phase to the full moon phase.
What is 2 weeks.
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a constellation.
What takes place when a book falls off the shelf to the ground?
What is Earth's gravity is attempting to pull the book toward the center of the Earth.
During winter, that part of the Earth receives this type of sunlight.
What is indirect rays of sunlight.
List the moon phases in order, starting with the new moon.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last/third quarter, waning crescent, back to new moon.
The path in which a planet moves around the sun.
What is an orbit.
it takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to make one of these around the sun.
What is an Orbit or Revolution.
Define the word gravity.
What is the force of attraction between two objects.
Without this, the Earth would not experience seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis.
This is what is occurring to the sun's light reflected off the moon during the waning moon phases.
What is the shadow is "chasing" the light, and the moon appears to be growing smaller/darker.
Our sun has much more _____ than Earth or the planets and objects that _____ around it. As a result, the _____ of the sun holds Earth and other objects in space in their orbits.
Fill in the blanks; worth 3 points.
What is: mass, revolve, gravity
This explains why the stars we see at night seem so small, even though they are much larger than our sun.
What is because they are much farther away.
What is the moon phase that directly follows the full moon?
What is the waning gibbous.
The point at which a rocket can exit Earth's atmosphere.
What is the escape velocity, or 25,000 mph.
This is the force that causes some items to fall at a slower rate than others.
What is air resistance.
Is Earth the only planet with gravity? Why or why not?
What is no, all of the planets have gravity because it exists between all objects. Planets have gravity due to their core and rotation.