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Earth
Sun
Moon
Seasons
Vocabulary
100
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
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 are the two factors that cause the earth to have seasons.
What are the tilt of the axis and the shape of the earth?
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 big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
200
Solar refers to the sun. This term refers to the moon.
What is "lunar"?
200
Due to the tilt of the planet, this is what happens to the length of daylight hours during the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.
What is it is the shortest day of the year?
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 sun rises in this direction.
What is the "east"?
300
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
300
This is the point in space where the north pole is always pointing.
What is the North Star?
300
These are the term for the days when the hemispheres are experiencing the most or least direct sunlight.
What is soltices?
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
In general, why do we, in Indiana, experience 4 different seasons through the year.
What during different times of the year we are receiving the energy from the sun at different angles?
400
This is the days of the year when all the earth experiences the same amount of light and darkness.
What is equinox?
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
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"?
500
They describe this part of the sun that is seen around the edge of the moon during a solar eclipse. The sun's "atmosphere."
What is the "corona"?