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How Earth Moves
How Earth Moves 2
Phases of the Moon
The Sun and Planets
The Sun and Planets 2
100
Earth's shape
What is a sphere?
100
It takes Earth this long to rotate once
What is 24 hours?
100
True or False: The moon changes shape.
What is false?
100
The number of planets in our solar system
What is eight?
100
The only planet that supports life in our solar system
What is Earth?
200
The spinning of Earth on its axis
What is rotation?
200
It takes Earth this long to orbit the Sun
What is one year (365 1/4 days)?
200
The phase of the moon where we can see a complete circle
What is full moon?
200
True or false: The Sun is a star.
What is true?
200
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
300
The imaginary line that runs through the Earth from North Pole to South Pole
What is its axis?
300
It is summer in Maine when this hemisphere is pointed toward the Sun
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
300
The phase of the moon where we cannot see it
What is the new moon?
300
A tool that astronomers use to look into space
What is a telescope?
300
The hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
400
The path than an object follows as it revolves around another object
What is its orbit?
400
Day and night are caused by the Earth's ___________.
What is rotation?
400
The moon is a __________, or anything that orbits another, larger object in space.
What is a satellite?
400
The four inner planets are made of this
What is rock?
400
The four inner planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
500
The movement of Earth around the Sun
What is revolution?
500
The seasons are caused by Earth's ______________.
What is tilted axis?
500
The moon takes this long to pass through all of its phases
What is about 29 days?
500
The four outer planets are made of this
What is gas?
500
The four outer planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?