Earth
When the Earth has made one full orbit around the sun, it has completed one _____.
Revolution
What is the name for depressions/holes made on the moon caused by the impact of meteorites?
Craters
What is the phase of the moon that immediately follows a new moon?
What is a Waxing Crescent
Which two scientists believed in the Earth Centered model?
Aristotle and Ptolemy Earth-center (APE)
Explain the difference between the Earth's rotation and a revolution.
Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours; whereas, Earth only revolves around the sun every 365.25 days.
The Moon revolves around what terrestrial planet
The Earth
Which moon phase immediately precedes a Full Moon?
A Waxing Gibbous
Name two of the three people in the Apollo Moon project.
Buzz Aldrin, Micheal Collins and Neil Armstrong
What causes day and night on the Earth?
Rotation of the Earth
More than a half moon but less than a full moon is called a
Gibbous moon
It takes the Earth about how many days to revolve around the Sun?
365 days
What is the moon phase that happens at the end of the 1 week after a new moon?
A First Quarter Moon.
Which scientists believed in the Sun centered model?
Galileo and Copernicus
The seasons are related to Earth's ________ and ________.
The Earth's revolution around the Sun and Earth's Tilt.
How is the Moon's revolution different from the Earth's revolution?
The Earth's rotation takes 365; however, the moon's rotation takes about 29.5 days!!!
Which item in space is an average-sized yellow star that is about 1.39 million kilometers in diameter?
The Sun of course!
How many days does it take the moon to revolve around the Earth?
29.5 days
Which President convinced Congress to give funding to the NASA space program?
President John F. Kennedy
Explain how the Earth's Tilt determines the seasons in each hemisphere.
If the days are cold and short
The Earth is tilted away from the Sun
Explain the difference between waxing and waning. Then perform the Waxing/Waning moon hand movement!
Waxing phases are when the amount of lighted surface on the moon is increasing; whereas, Waning phases are the phases that take place after the full moon and the amount of lighted surface on the moon is decreasing.
What term is used to describe the Sun-centered model?
Heliocentric
Name all of the moon phases beginning with a New Moon.
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon
Who was sentence to life on house arrest due to his teaching and belief of the Solar System?
Galileo