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 proved this when he studied space with a telescope.
What is the sun is the center of the solar system?
100
The amount of time it takes Earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hr?
200
We experience this when part of the Earth is facing the sun.
What is daytime?
200
can be used to make testable predictions and is helpful because it can help us understan something that is too big to view with our eyes.
What is a model?
200
Reason the moon changes.
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
Caroline sees these when she looks up at the night sky on a clear night.
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 was built there.
What is Kennedy Space Center?
300
Amount of time it takes the moon to rotate around Earth?
What is about one month, or 28 days?
400
The reason a person living on Earth sees 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
Why do you think it is necessary for astronauts to wear space suits on the moon?
What is the moon has no air, so astronauts would need a space suit to breathe; it is cold on the moon, so astronauts must keep warm?
400
Most important development of technology that can be used for space exploration.
What is the camera?
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
these can gather data about the planets and what they are made up of; they can measure temperature; they can gather data about planets' physical properties and their moons.
What is a space probe?
500
Describe the moon phases: New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Third Quarter.