Earth
This causes day and night?
The Earth's rotation.
We get heat and light from the sun.
What is true?
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"?
The moon does this around the Earth.
What is "orbits"?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This phase of the moon is almost a full moon
What is a gibbous moon?
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is one year?
The sun rises in this direction.
What is the "east"?
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
This object is used to study far away objects in the sky.
What is a "telescope"?
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see all of the lit side.
What is "full moon"?
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"?
This is a very large rock that revolves or orbits around the Earth.
What is "the moon"?
The imaginary line horizontally around the middle of the Earth.
What is the "equator"?
This is how the sun's rays strike the Earth in the summer.
What is "directly"?
The moon goes through these each month. It changes
shape each day.
What is phases"?
This phase of the moon looks like a letter C.
What is crescent moon?
Has a person been on the moon?
yes?