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The Sun
Gravity
Seasons
Orbit
Moon
100
The part of the sun where nuclear fusion takes place
What is the core?
100
The two factors that can change the gravitational pull between two objects.
What are mass and distance?
100
This is the number of seasons we experience in a year.
What are 4?
100
This is the vertical (up and down) invisible line of which the Earth rotates around.
What is the axis?
100
This is the name of the line of division for the light side and dark side of the moon.
What is the terminator?
200
The cooler dark blotches on the surface of the sun
What is sunspots?
200
Gravity is this type of force
What is a pulling force?
200
This term denotes equal duration of day and night.
What is equinox?
200
This is the amount of days it takes Earth to revolve around the sun one time/
What is 365 (1/4)?
200
The phase of the moon where half of the right side of the moon is illuminated.
What is the first quarter?
300
Loops of gas that connect sunspots
What are prominences?
300
Gravity has a constant rate of falling, which means this.
What is everything falls at the same speed.
300
This angle of Earth causes different seasons.
What is a tilt (23.5 degrees)?
300
In a Geocentric model, what was the point that planetary objects revolved around?
What is the Earth?
300
This phenomenon is where the moon is in between Earth and the sun, blocking the sunlight.
What is a solar eclipse?
400
This layer of the sun produces the light that we see
What is the photosphere?
400
Objects falling on the moon hit the ground at the same time, while on earth this factor affects the change of a fall.
What is air resistance?
400
This invisible line divides the Earth into a northern and southern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
400
This term reflects the turning of an object around a single point or axis.
What is rotation?
400
We use a calendar to measure duration of time. These are the measurement of a full moon phase.
What are months?
500
This layer of the sun is where the sun gets its color.
What is the chromosphere?
500
This law states that objects will move until another force causes a resistance.
What is inertia?
500
This season occurs when there is direct, concentrated sunlight in the northern hemisphere.
What is summer?
500
Planetary objects revolve around the sun in this type of shape or form?
What is oval or elliptical?
500
This is the reason why we don't see a solar eclipse every month.
What is a tilted moon orbit?