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Earth
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This and That
Vocabulary
100

This causes the Earth's seasons.

What is the tilt of the Earth and the revolution around the sun?

100
The word "solar" refers to this object.
What is the "sun"?
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
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is "rotating"?
200

The shape of the Earth

What is a "sphere"?

200

The sun is a average sized yellow ______.

What is a "star"?

200
Solar refers to the sun. This term refers to the moon.
What is "lunar"?
200
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
200

This imaginary line goes around the center of the Earth and splits it into the Northern and Southern hemisperes.

What is the "equator"?

300

The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.

What is 365 1/4 days or 1 year?

300

The sun is _________ years old.

What is 4.6 billion?

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
This term is used to describe the phase of the moon when we see all of the lit side.
What is "full moon"?
400

When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.

What is "summer"?

400

This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.

What is a "solar eclipse"?

400
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
400

This is the rise and fall of the ocean water because of gravity of the Moon.

What is "tides"?

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 pole that runs through the center of the Earth.

What is the axis?

500

The sun is about _______ times the Earth in it's diameter.

What is 110?

500
The moon affects this part of the Earth, changing it daily on our beaches.
What is the "ocean tide"?
500

We have _____ high tides and _____ low tides each day.

What is "2 and 2"?

500

Where does the moon get its light from?

What is the "sun"?