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What's the Word?
What's the Definition?
How Earth Moves
The Phases of the Moon
The Sun and Its Planets
100
To turn around
Rotate
100
Sphere
A body that has the shape of a ball or globe
100
What does Earth spin on? This is the imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Axis
100
What are the changing shapes the moon appears to have as it orbits the Earth called?
The Phases of the Moon
100
True or False: Earth is one of eight planets that circle the sun.
True
200
A real or imaginary line through the center of a spinning object
axis
200
Lens
A curved piece of glass
200
How long does it take for Earth to make one complete rotation?
24 hours
200
The moon goes through different ________________ about once every 29 days.
phases
200
The planets _________________ the sun.
orbit
300
To move around another object
Revolve
300
Telescope
A tool that gathers light to make faraway objects appear closer
300
How many days does it take Earth to revolve around the Sun?
365 and one-fourth days OR 1 year
300
What covers the moon's surface?
Craters
300
What two things do we get from the Sun?
Heat and light
400
The path an object follows as it revolves
orbit
400
Solar System
The Sun and all the objects that orbit the Sun
400
How are rotating and revolving different?
Rotating is motion around an axis. Revolving is motion around another object.
400
What are the four names of the phases that the moon goes through?
New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter
400
If Mars circled the Sun in the SAME orbit as Earth, how long would a Mars year be?
It would be the same as on Earth
500
A huge, hot sphere of gases, like the Sun, that gives off its own light.
Star
500
Planet
Any of the nine large bodies that orbit the Sun.
500
What would happen if Earth's axis was not slightly tilted?
We would have no seasons. It would be the same temperature year round.
500
The moon is a satellite of Earth. What is a satellite?
A satellite is any object that orbits another larger body in space.
500
Name the planets going from closest to the sun to farthest away from the sun. Remember: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune