Movement
The Earth's orbit around the sun lasts this long.
What is one year (or 365 1/4 days)?
Without this, the Earth would not experience seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
This force keeps the planets and moons in their orbits.
What is gravity?
Star closest to the Earth.
What is THE SUN.
An imaginary center line around which Earth rotates.
What is the Axis.
How long does it take the Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis?
What is one day or 24 hours?
When part of the Earth is tilted closer to the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is summer?
This explains why the stars we see at night seem so small, even though they are much larger than our sun.
What is the stars are farther away than our sun?
The Sun and all the bodies that Orbit it.
What is the Solar System?
The Earth's ___________ gives us day and night.
What is rotation.
The effect of the Earth rotating on its axis.
What causes day and night?
When part of the Earth is tilted away from the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is winter?
This is the galaxy in which our solar system resides.
What is the Milky Way?
The Sun and all the bodies that Orbit it.
What is the Solar System.
it takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to make one of these around the sun
What is an Orbit or Revolution.
What is the scientific word for Earth's orbit around the sun?
What is "revolution"?
During winter, that part of the Earth receives this type of sunlight.
What is indirect rays of sunlight?
A tool that will help see more detail about a small area of the sky.
What is a telescope?
The center of our solar system is
What is the sun?
The natural object that orbits the earth.
What is the moon?
The number of orbits Juan has experienced in his lifetime if he is 11 years old.
What is 11?
If the northern hemisphere is experiencing winter, the southern hemisphere is experiencing this season.
What is summer?
The source of all energy, one way or another, on our planet.
What is the sun?
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a CONSTELLATION.
Earth is the ________ planet from the Sun.
What is the 3rd.