Earth
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
The word "solar" refers to this object.
What is the "sun"?
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 29 days or about a month?
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is "rotating"?
The shape of the Earth
What is a "sphere"?
The sun is a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
Solar refers to the sun. This term refers to the moon.
What is "lunar"?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This is the degree tilt of the Earth's axis.
What is the "23.5 degrees"?
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
The sun rises in this direction.
What is the "east"?
During this phase of the moon, we can experience solar eclipses.
What is a "new moon"?
This is relative position of the Earth, moon, and Sun during a lunar eclipse
What is Sun, Earth, moon?
As we see more and more of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is "waxing"?
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is "summer"?
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.
What is a "solar eclipse"?
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
The sun appears higher in the sky during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
As we see less and less of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is "waning"?
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
What is the "axis"?
This is how the sun's rays strike the Earth in the summer.
What is "directly"?
List the correct order of moon phases starting from New Moon.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, 3rd quarter, waning crescent?
We have this special day every 4 years in February because it takes the Earth 365 and 1/4 days to revolve around the sun.
What is "Leap Year Day"?
When the sun’s/moon’s gravity are pulling away from each other at a 90 degree angle, this type of tide occurs
What is a "neap tide"?