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How does Earth Rotate and Revolve in Space?
How does Earth Move in Space?
What are Moon Phases?
How Does Technology Help Us Learn About Space?
Miscellaneous
100
Earth has an imaginary line through it from pole to pole, about which Earth spins.
What is the Earth's axis?
100
The amount of rotations Earth completes as it orbits once around the sun.
What is 365?
100
Another word that means the same as moon.
What is a satellite?
100
Galileo invented this tool, now an integral part of space studies.
What is the telescope?
100
The amount of time it takes Earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
200
We experience this when part of the Earth is facing the sun.
What is daytime?
200
Earth revolves around the sun. This other planetary object revolves around the Earth.
What is the moon?
200
Reason the moon goes through "phases".
What is the amount of the lighted part of the moon that faces Earth changes?
200
A calendar that is based on phases of the moon.
What is a lunar calendar?
200
Earth orbits around this.
What is the sun?
300
This term describes patterns of stars in the night sky.
What are constellations?
300
Earth orbits the sun. Yet the sun appears to move through the sky. For example, the sun always appears to rise in the east and set in the west.
What is Earth's rotation?
300
Reason moon appears lit at night.
What is reflects light from the sun?
300
Florida has fair weather which is why this NASA center was built there.
What is Kennedy Space Center (at Cape Canaveral)?
300
Amount of time it takes the moon to rotate around Earth?
What is about one month, or 28 days?
400
The action of Earth that causes us to see daytime and nighttime every 24 hr.
What is Earth rotating about its axis?
400
Earth _______ on its axis and ________ around the sun.
What is Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun?
400
The moon appears to move across the sky.
What is Earth rotating on its axis?
400
Unmanned ______ ______ move through space collecting data and sending it back down to Earth.
What are space probes?
400
The moon goes through this many phases in a typical month.
What is eight?
500
This causes Earth to have four seasons; winter, spring, summer, and fall.
What is tilt of the Earth's axis?
500
A year would be longer than 365 days.
What if it took longer than 365 days to revolve around the sun?
500
The reason a footprint can stay on the moon without being dusted away.
What is no wind or air on the moon?
500
NASA "spin-offs" were originally created for use with the space program, but are now used by civilians. Name one "spin-off".
What are 1) shoe soles, 2) cordless power tools, 3) GPS, + others?
500
Describe the moon phases: New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Third Quarter.
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