Earth
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
Earth’s seasons change in a yearly cycle because of the tilt of its rotation axis and Earth’s motion around the Sun. True or False
What is True?
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 29 days or about a month?
The darker central part of a shadow is called the ____.
What is the umbra?
Rotation is the movement of one object around another object. True or False
What is a false. What is Revolution?
The part of Earth tilted toward the Sun experiences seasons of ___________.
What is spring and summer.?
The Moon does emit its own light. True or false
What is False? It carries light due to the suns reflection.
During a ______ , the Moon’s shadow passes over Earth’s surface.
What is a solar eclipse?
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
What is the "axis"?
During a ________, Earth’s rotation axis is the most toward or away from the Sun
What is solstice?
A solar eclipse can occur only during a full moon. True or false.
What is false. It occurs during a new moon.
We experience ______ due to the Earths movement called rotation.
What is day and night.
It takes _____ day for Earth to complete one rotation.
What is 1 day?
If the southern end of Earth’s axis leans toward the Sun, it is fall or winter in the ________ hemisphere.
What is a southern?
Large, flat areas on the Moon are called _____.
What are marias?
What is a tide?
What is the daily rise and fall of sea level?
The Earths axis is an invisible line that intersects the Earth through both __________.
What is north and south poles?
Earth rotates in a __________ direction from west to east.
What is counter-clockwise?
What is an equinox?
What is when the Earth’s axis does not lean toward or away from the Sun.
A lunar cycle —the sequence of moon phases—takes _____ days to complete.
What is 29.5 days?
The main cause of tides is what?
What is the gravitational pull of the Moon on Earth.
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"?