Earth
Sun
Moon
This and That
Vocabulary
Final Jeopardy
100

This causes the Earth's seasons.

What is the tilt of the Earth and its revolution?

100

Our sun is the only one of these in our solar system

What is a star

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 phase about seven days after the new moon.

What is the first quarter moon.

100

The early atronomers thought this....

The Earth is the center of the universe

Geo-centered.

200

The rotation of the Earth causes this. 

What is day and night?

200

The sun is this size and color.

What is average sized yellow

200

The number of moons that would fit across the diameter of the Earth.

What is 4 (four)?

200
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
200

This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.

What is the "axis"?

300
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
300

The age of the sun.

What 4.6 billion years old"?

300

During this phase, we can see no light reflecting off the moon.

What is a "new moon"?

300

High tides and low tides occur this many times each during a 24 hour period.

What is 2 times or twice each.

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

The sun is ______times the diameter of the Earth.

What is 110

400

True or False.

The moon has extreme temperature, little or no atmosphere, no water, and no life as we know it.

True.

400

There are extremes: high tides are higher and the low tides are lower.


What is during a full or new moon.

400

Causes the phases of the moon.

What is the revolution of the moon around the Earth.

500
The imaginary line horizontally around the middle of the Earth.
What is the "equator"?
500
This is how the sun's rays strike the Earth in the summer.
What is "directly"?
500

The moon affects this part of the Earth, changing it daily on our beaches.

What is the "ocean tide"?

500

Matt is spinning around in place.  Is this an example of rotation or revolution?

What is rotation

500

Why the Earth is able to support life.

What is An atmosphere to protect it from the sun, that is full of oxygen, and  large amounts of water