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100
Why can't you feel Earth move?
It moves slowly and steady and we move with it.
100
What is the spinning around Earth's axis called?
rotation
100
Since Earth rotates from East to West, we experience what two things?
What is day and night?
100
What keeps Earth revolving around the Sun?
What is gravity?
100
This causes the seasons to change on Earth.
What is it's tilt?
200
Which side of the moon faces Earth since it's moving around Earth?
What is the same side?
200
What do we experience that lets us know for sure Earth is moving?
What are seasons?
200
When the Moon blocks some of the Sun's light, that causes a __________ eclipse.
What is solar?
200
This is a medium-sized star nearest to Earth.
What is the Sun?
200
This is a pattern of stars.
What is a constellation?
300
When the Earth blocks some of the Sun's light from reaching the Moon, that is a ________ eclipse.
What is lunar?
300
Earth's rotation causes the position of a shadow to change because light hits it at different __________ throughout the day.
What are angles?
300
Shadows change _______ throughout the day, causing them to be long when the Sun is low in the sky, and short when the Sun is high.
What is length?
300
The Moon changes in the same ways every 29 days. This happens because ______________.
What is the reflection of the Sun's light off the Moon's surface?
300
When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun, the season is ________________.
What is summer?
400
When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, the Southern Hemisphere is tilted away. That causes wintertime because _________.
What is the Sun's light is spread out?
400
Earth's axis is _______________.
What is an imaginary line through its center?
400
Earth's rotation is _______.
What is Earth's spinning around it's axis?
400
Earth's revolution is ___________.
What is movement of one thing around another?
400
Earth's orbit is _________.
What is it's path around the Sun?
500
Earth's orbit is in this shape.
What is an ellipse?
500
This happens when one object in space gets between the Sun and another object.
What is an eclipse?
500
Why does Florida get more hours of daylight than Massachusetts in the winter, but not in the summer?
What is Earth's tilt?
500
The Sun rises in the _____.
What is East?
500
The Sun sets in the ______.
What is the West?