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The Earth
Rotation/Revolution
Vocabulary
Movement
Wild
100
What causes day and night?
What is the rotation of the Earth on its axis
100

What is the difference between revolution and rotation?

Revolution: Earth circles the sun

Rotation: Earth spins 360 degrees

100
Gravity and inertia keep earth moving around the sun in its _________.
What is orbit.
100
Which term best describes the Earth moving around the sun?
What is orbit
100
The heat energy of sunlight is more concentrated in the summer because the hemisphere having summer is tilted ____________ the sun.
What is towards
200
A student is watching the morning sky to see the sun rise. In which direction should she look?
What is the east.
200
What causes seasons?
What is the Earth's tilted axis.
200
Every 24 hours, Earth makes a complete ___________, or spin on its axis.
What is a rotation.
200

How much time does it take for Earth to complete one revolution?

What is one year or 365 1/4 days

200
If Earth's axis were not tilted, could any area have both a hot summer and a cold winter?
What is No, because all the temperatures would be the same because the axis is not tilted.
300
Earth completes one full _____________ on its axis every 24 hours.
What is a rotation
300
If the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing winter, what season is Southern Hemisphere experiencing?
What is summer
300
The tendency of a moving object to keep moving in a straight line is called ________________.
What is inertia.
300

What keeps Earth in its orbit around the sun?

What is gravity and inertia

300
The sun's gravitational pull on Earth is __________ than its pull on a planet much farther away, such as Neptune.
What is stronger
400
Explain the position of the side of Earth where it is at night.
What is the side of the Earth facing away from the sun.
400
What causes day and night?
What is rotation of Earth's axis.
400
Earth makes one ___________ in 365 days.
What is a revolution.
400
How is the length of day determined? A. the earth's revolution around the sun B. the moon's revolution around the Earth C. the Earth's rotation on its axis D. the moon's rotation on its axis
What is the Earth's revolution around the sun
400
In what direction would the planets travel if the Sun suddenly disappeared? Explain.
What is Without the sun's gravity pulling planets inward, the planets would fly off into space in a straight line from their position in their orbit.
500

What is special about the Earth and how it orbits around the sun?

What is it is tilted at 23.5 degrees as it orbits around the sun.

500

What causes Earth to rotate?

Gravity

500
________________ is a force of attraction, or pull, between any two objects.
What is gravity.
500

Explain in your own words how the sun, moon, and earth interact.

What is that the earth orbits the sun while the moon orbits the earth. The earth, sun, and moon are all rotating on each of their axis.

500

Why do areas near Earth's poles have long periods of darkness and daylight?

What is due to Earth's tilt.