Solar System
One complete rotation of the Earth.
What is an Earth day?
Space begins or the atmosphere ends at this distance above Earth.
What is 50 miles or 80 kilometers?
Earth has _______ seasons.
What is 4?
This solar system object is a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
The Earth follows this path around the Sun for 365 days?
What is Earth's orbit?
This solar system object is less than 500,000 miles from Earth
What is the Moon?
Earth's axis is tilted toward the Sun. In Kansas it is ________
What is summer?
This belt rocky materials is located between Msrs and Jupiter
What is the asteroid belt?
The Earth __________ on its axis.
What is rotation?
When the Moon does not appear in the night sky
What is a new moon?
The average distance from Earth to the Sun
What is 93,000,000 miles?
When it is Fall in the southern hemisphere, it is ________ in Kansas.
What is Spring?
It is during this time of day that shadows are smallest.
What is midday (or noon)?
When the Moon is a thin sliver in the night sky
What is a crescent moon?
The time it takes for the Moon to revolve around Earth.
What is 29.5 days?
These two things cause the earth to experience seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth and its revolution around the Sun?
The Sun rises on the
What is the eastern horizon?
One side of the Moon always faces Earth because
What is the Moon's revolution around the Earth and rotation on its axis.
The angle Earth's axis makes with its orbit
What is 23.5 degrees?
How many seasons does Jupiter have?
One season