Earth-Sun System
This occurs when occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth causing the Moon's shadow to hit Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
This tide occurs when the moon is new and full.
What is spring tide?
This is a full trip along a planet's orbit around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
This constellation, also called "The Hunter," is known for its three-star diagonal belt. .
What is Orion?
A prehistoric stone circle monument, calendar, cemetery, and archaeological site located in England.
What is Stonehenge?
This is the shape of Earth's orbit.
What is an oval/ellipse?
This is what it is called when the visible portion of the moon is increasing.
What is waxing?
This planet is the fourth from the Sun.
What is Mars?
The Big Dipper is a small part of this bigger constellation.
What is Ursa Major (or the Big Bear)?
The direction the sun rises up in the morning and then sets in the evening.
What is East to West?
This causes the seasons during a year and measures 23.5 degrees.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
During this lunar phase the Earth will experience neap tides.
What is a quarter moon?
The planet that is considered Earth's twin.
What is Venus?
This zodiac constellation is represented by a lion.
What is Leo?
Ancient sailors used this object in the sky to help them navigate at night.
What is the North Star?
There are 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night on which special days.
What are the Equinoxes? (Autumn Equinox and Spring Equinox)
Explain what causes tides-the rise and fall of sea levels.
Primarily caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon, creating bulges of water on both the side of the Earth closest to it and the side farthest away.
Explain why you would weigh differently on other planets.
You weigh differently on other planets because of variations in the planet's gravitational pull, which is a result of the planet's mass/size.
This W-shaped constellation is named after a queen from Greek mythology.
What is Cassiopeia?
This layer of gases surrounds Earth and helps protect us from the Sun's harmful rays. It makes the sunrises and sunsets reddish orange
What is the atmosphere?
This northern hemisphere season causes the shortest days.
What is Winter?
Reason- Its moon's orbit around Earth and the sunlight that reflects off it.
What causes the Moon to have phases?
Explain the difference between the inner planets and the outer planets.
Inner planets are rocky; outer planets are made mostly of gas and ice.
Size-Inner planets are smaller and have few or no moons; outer planets are much larger and have many moons.
Explain what is special about the star Polaris.
The reason Polaris is so important is that it is almost directly above the North Pole and doesn't move. This means you can use it like a compass to find north.
Explain what happens to the force that keeps the Moon in orbit around Earth: 1.) If the Earth were to speed up. 2.) If the Earth's speed were to slow down.
1.) Speeding up would break the pull of gravity and send us flying away in a straight line.
2.) Slowing down means that gravity will pull us into the Sun.
This type of solar eclipse occurs when the moon does not block the sun entirely, requiring special viewing glasses too be worn at all times.
What is a partial eclipse?
The phase that comes before the New Moon.
What is the Waning Crescent?
This is located between the planet Mars and Jupiter in our solar system.
What is the asteroid belt?
These are the constellations that rise in the east and set in the west?
What are the zodiacs?
People use this tall structure that houses a telescope to study the stars, galaxy, and our universe.
What is an observatory?
This type of solar eclipse occurs when the moon blocks the entire sun and leaves only the Sun's corona.
What is a total solar eclipse?
Explain how many tides there are each day and how often.
There are 2 high tides and 2 low tides every day. They change every 6 hours.
These are the eight major planets in order from the Sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The 3 main reasons for grouping stars in constellations?
What is navigation, agriculture, and religion?
This is where I would want to be in June to see our star all day (24 hours) long.
What is the Arctic Circle? (or the Arctic North Pole)