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The Milky Way is a type of:
What is a galaxy?
This is where the largest diameter of Earth is located.
What is the equator?
Earth makes a full rotation around its axis every:
What is 24 hours?
This would result from a decrease in solar radiation.
What is a decrease in global temperatures?
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This is the cause of impact craters found throughout our solar system.
What is MANY collisions?
This would cause an increase in the length of Earth's day.
What is a decrease in its rotational speed?
This is the cause of tides.
What is the gravitational interaction between the moon and Earth?
The moon appears to shrink during these phases.
What are waning phases?
When Earth is fully tilted towards the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere experiences this season.
What is summer?
This is the BEST evidence for gravity influencing the Solar System.
What is the elliptical orbits of planets around the sun?
The number of times daylight and darkness are equal.
What is two?
This is the characteristic that makes Earth unique from all other planets in the Solar System.
What is all three phases of water being present?
When Earth's axis is not tilted towards or away from the sun, it is called:
What is the equinox?
This would cause more dramatic seasonal variation on Earth.
What is an increased angle of tilt?
These TWO statements are evidence that the solar system is a flattened, spinning disc.
What is all planets moving in the same plane? What is a single-direction elliptical orbit?
Earth receives energy from the Sun through this process.
What is the fusion of solar mass?
This is when a lunar eclipse occurs on Earth.
What is when the Earth is between the moon and the sun?
The sun makes life possible on Earth by providing:
What is the energy required for photosynthesis?
This causes the timing of seasons to be opposite in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is Earth's tilt?
Kepler's Law States:
What is that planets have an elliptical orbit.
This would occur if the Earth's tilt changed to 24 degrees.
What is the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Equator would all change locations.
This scientific principle is applied to Earth's barycenter.
What is gravity?
The sun's energy is produced by this process.
Hydrogen nuclei combining to form a helium nucleus.
These TWO factors are responsible for seasons on Earth.
What is the axial tilt? What is Earth's revolution around the sun?