The Earth has a layer of gases that protects all living things on Earth from the Sun's most harmful rays.
What is the Earth's atmosphere.
100
We can not live without this on Earth. Why?
What is the Sun, almost all living things depend on the Sun for their food, as well as for heat and light.
100
Chunks of rock or metal fall from space, creating this on the Moon's surface.
What are craters.
100
What causes seasons?
What is the tilt of the Earth.
100
A pattern of stars.
What is constellation
200
It takes about _____ for Earth to ________ once on its axis.
What is 24 hours and rotate
200
What is on Mars that is similar to Earth?
What is Ice.
200
The reason that the Moon is made up of large and small craters.
What is there is no atmosphere to break up the meteorites.
200
Do you think the seasons change the same way in every place on Earth?
Seasons do not change the same way everywhere on Earth. There is not much seasonal change in temperature near the equator.
200
Why do we see different night star patterns, constellations, at each season?
This is the result of the Earth's revolution around the Sun. As Earth rotates, its night side faces away from the SUN. As Earth revolves around the Sun, that night side looks toward different parts of space at different times of the year. For that reason we see different constellations.
300
There is day and night because . . .
The Earth rotates on its axis. Part of the day faces the Sun, daytime, the other part of the day faces away from the Sun, nighttime.
300
Name all the planets in order starting from the Sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
300
How might the night sky on the Moon look different from the night sky on Earth?
More stars would be visible and you would see the Earth.
300
Why is it usually warm near the equator and cooler at the poles?
What is because of the tilt of the Earth and direct and indirect Sun rays.
300
What is the Sun?
A star.
400
It takes how long for the Earth to make a complete ____________ around the Sun.
What is a revolution and a year.
400
What is the definition of a planet?
A planet is a large body that circles a star and that doesn't give off light as a star does.
400
The Moon's gravity makes the oceans rise and fall in daily _______
What is tides.
400
When it is summer in the Northern hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern hemisphere?
What is winter.
400
Name two ways that people have used the sky (think both stars and sun)
What is to make calendars, judge time of day, navigation, direction . . .
500
Earth is the ________ planet from the Sun?
What is the third planet
500
What separates the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
What is the Equator
500
Does the Moon have a dark side? Explain.
No the Moon has a "far side". We only see one side of the Moon, but the moon orbits the Earth, as the Earth orbits the Sun.
500
Summer in the Northern hemisphere is due to the Earth being closer to the Sun at that time of year. True or False, Why?
This is false. It is summer in the Northern hemisphere because the Earth is tilted and the Northern hemisphere is receiving more direct Sun rays at this time.
500
Explain why Polaris is called the North Star.
Polaris lies almost exactly over Earth's North Pole. Which follows the Earth's axis.