Galaxies
What is a spiral
Day and Night are caused by what?
What is the Earth rotation on its axis. (Rotation)
How long does it take for the Earth to make one full revolution?
What is 365.25 days?
The angle in which the Earth is tilted.
What is 23.5 degrees.
This moon phase causes a solar eclipse.
What is a New moon?
The name of our galaxy is _____?
What is the Milky Way?
What causes a year?
What is Earth's revolution around the sun. (revolution)
This is how long it takes for one rotation.
What is 24 hours.
During which season is the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun?
What is winter
What are the four main galaxy shapes?
What are Lenticular, Spiral, Irregular, and Elliptical.
The moon _________ around the Earth.
Revolves.
How long does one revolution around the sun take?
What is 365.25 days.
During which season is the U.S. slowly getting less and less sunlight every day?
What is fall and winter
Which moon phases look like it is getting smaller?
What is a waning.
________ Galaxies are spherical or oval shaped.
They are older with very little gas, dust or young stars.
What is Elliptical.
Earth's Tilt and Revolution around the sun.
This is how long one it takes the moon to make one full revolution around the Earth, or one lunar month.
What is about 29 days?
Type of tide that occurs during New and Full moon phases.
What is Spring tide?
Which moon phases happens when the moon is lit only on the left half?
What is a third-quarter moon
galaxies have irregular shapes. They have more gas and dust than other galaxies and contain 100 million – 10billion stars. These stars are younger than the stars in other galaxies.
What is Irregular ?
This is the main difference between rotation and revolution.
What are the layers of the sun in order from the inside out?
What is Core, Radiation Zone, Convection Zone, Photosphere, Chromosphere, Corona
This tide can be characterized by lower than normal high tides, and higher than normal low tides.
The moon phases in order.
What is New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent?