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Earth
More Earth and Shadows
Sun
Sun/Moon
Moon
100
What is rotation?
The spinning of an object on its axis
100
How long is a year on Earth?
365 1/4 days
100
If the North pole is tilted towards the sun what season would it be?
Summer
100
Name reasons we need sunlight?
Helps plants grow to feed animals, melts ice to provide water, and helps to make electricity
100
The force that pulls objects towards it is called
gravity
200
What is revolution?
the movement of one object around another
200
In the morning would your shadow cast a long or short shadow?
Long shadow
200
When neither the top or bottom half is pointed towards the sun what season(s)is it?
Spring or Fall
200
The moon will orbit the Earth every ______ days
28
200
How does the Moon help Earth?
keeps Earth tilted on its axis
300
What causes the seasons?
The Earth's tilted axis and revolving around the sun
300
At noon the sun is overhead, woudl objects cast a short shadows and no shadows or would it cast long shadows and no shadows?
What is short shadows and no shadows
300
A star is
A big ball of hot burning gases
300
The light from the Moon is actually
The reflection of light from the Sun
300

The moon is made primarily out of? 

Rock 

400
What causes day and night?
Earth's rotation
400
In the evening would shadows cast long or short?
What is long
400
Our Sun is considered a
Star
400
Big holes on the Moon tha look like dark spots from Earth are called _____
Craters
400

What are the holes in the moon called? 

Craters 

500
How long is a day on Earth
24 hours
500
Earth has seasons because
tilt of the Earth on its axis and revolution around the sun
500
The Sun is over _____ times wider than our planet Earth?
100
500
As the Moon orbits Earth, its gravitational pull creates
our tides in the oceans
500

What function of the oceans does the moon control? 

The tides