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Earth
True or False
Moon
This and That
Vocabulary
100
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
100

The sun revolves around the Earth.

What is "false"?

100
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 29 days or about a month?
100
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
100

The object in the sky, that we can see from Earth, that reflects light from the sun.

What is the "moon"?

200
The shape of the Earth
What is a "sphere"?
200

The moon produces its own light.

What is "false"?

200
Solar refers to the sun. This term refers to the moon.
What is "lunar"?
200

This causes the moon to glow in the night sky.

What is the "sun or sun rays"?

200
The sun appears higher in the sky during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
300
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
300

It takes a whole year for Earth to revolve (orbit) around the sun one time.

What is a "true"?

300
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
300
This object is used to study far away objects in the sky.
What is a "telescope"?
300

The path that Earth travels around the sun..

What is "orbit"?

400

It takes this long for Earth to complete one full rotation.

What is "one day or 24 hours"?

400

The moon only comes out at night.

What is "false"? The moon is always out at the same time as the sun.  You just can't see it all the time.

400

This term is used to describe the moon, when we can see all of the lit side.

What is a "full moon"?

400
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
What is the "axis"?
400
As we see less and less of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is "waning"?
500
The imaginary line horizontally around the middle of the Earth.
What is the "equator"?
500

Our moon is Earth's satellite.

What is "true"?

500

This object orbits or revolves around Earth.

What is "the moon"?

500
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is "rotating"?
500

When it is winter in North America, it is what in Australia?

What is "summer"?