Earth’s Rotation
What causes day and night on Earth?
What is Earth’s rotation?
What do we call the changing shapes of the lit part of the moon we see from Earth?
What are moon phases?
Shadows are longest at this time of day.
What is morning or late afternoon?
This object causes phases, tides, and eclipses.
What is the moon?
In a model, a flashlight usually represents the ____.
What is the Sun?
The sun rises in the ___ and sets in the _____
What is west to east?
A moon phase where the lit side is completely dark.
What is the new moon?
At solar noon, shadows are usually _____.
What is short?
The Sun appears to move across the sky in a pattern that repeats when?
What is every day?
In a demonstration of rotation, spinning a ball shows what?
What is day and night?
One full rotation of Earth takes how long?
What is 24 hours?
What phase is it when the moon looks fully lit?
What is the full moon?
As the Sun appears higher in the sky, shadows get ______.
What is shorter?
The moon’s phases follow a pattern that repeats about every ____ days.
A: What is 28–30 days?
Moving a ball in a circle around another ball models what?
What is revolution?
The Sun appears to rise in the east because Earth is doing what?
What is rotating toward the Sun?
What phase comes right after the first quarter?
What is the waxing gibbous?
This causes shadows to move from west to east throughout the day.
A: What is Earth’s rotation?
A constellation appears to move across the sky because of this.
What is Earth’s rotation?
Using a lamp and a ball helps students explore this natural event.
What is moon phases?
This effect of Earth's rotation makes shadows change throughout the day.
What is the Sun’s apparent movement in the sky?
Why do we see different moon phases?
What is the moon’s revolution around Earth?
What happens to a shadow when the Sun is lower on the horizon?
What is it becomes longer?
Seasons change because Earth has a tilt and does what?
What is revolves around the Sun?
A model showing long shadows means the Sun is at what angle?
What is a low angle?