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What we call the air that surrounds Earth?
Atmosphere
What is Earth's hydrosphere?
All of the water on the planet
This star is at the center of our solary system.
Sun
This is a large object that orbits a star.
Planet
Earth, Mars, Venus, and this planet make up the inner planets.
Mercury
This is an imaginary line that goes through the center of a planet.
An axis
This is the Earth's path as it moves around the sun.
Orbit
What is the name of the area of the earth containing life?
Biosphere
What are phases?
What are phases?
This is the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate once on its axis.
Twenty-four hours
This is a large system of stars, gas, and dust.
Galaxy
Which planets are in the outer planets?
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
First person to walk on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
it's the outer part of the earth, including the crust and the upper mantle. Above the ............, we have the atmosphere.
Lithosphere
What is one revolution?
365 days or 1 year movement.
This planet has iron oxide to make the planet appear red.
Mars
What is the liquid layer of the earth that produces the Earth's magnetism?
Outer core
What is the thin layer we walk on called?
Crust
What do we call the crust+the top layer of mantle?
lithosphere
This phase is sometimes called a half-moon.
Quarter moon
These two things cause Earth to have seasons.
Earth tilt and revolution around the Sun
This phase occurs when the moon is almost directly between the Sun and Earth.
New moon
During this phase, we only see a small sliver of the moon.
Crescent moon
What is a solar eclipse?
During this eclipse, the moon lines up exactly between the Sun and Earth.
Name the moon phases in reverse order (going backwards) starting with the new moon.
new moon, waning crescent, last quarter, waning gibbous, full moon, waxing gibbous, 1st quarter, waxing crescent