Earth's Movement
The earth takes this long to rotate on its axis.
What is "24 hours, or 1 day"?
The sun rises in this direction.
What is the "east"?
The number of time zones in the world?
What is "24"?
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is "rotating"?
This creates the pattern of night and day.
What is "Earth's rotation"?
The sun is a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
The imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole that marks the start of a new day.
What is "The International Date Line"?
This movement of Earth takes 24 hours.
What is "rotation"?
This imaginary is what the Earth rotates on.
What is the "axis"?
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is "365 days, or 1 year"?
The sun is highest in the sky at this time.
What is "noon, 12pm"?
The reason that we have time zones.
What is a "Earth's rotation"?
This is how bright a star appears from earth.
What is a "apparent magnitude"?
This term is used to describe Earth's orbit around the sun.
What is "revolution"?
This cause our shadows to change throughout the day.
What is "Earth's rotation"?
These revolve around the sun while rotating.
What are "planets"?
The time difference between Maryland and California.
What is "3 hours"?
This is how bright a star appears from a standard distance of 32.6 light years away.
What is "absolute magnitude"?
A group of stars that comes together to form a recognizable shape or picture.
What is "constellation"?
The earth does this 14 times in 2 weeks.
What is "rotates"?
This sun looks like it is the largest star in the sky because of this.
What is "its distance from earth"?
The imaginary lines that run from the north pole to the south pole that separate time zones.
What are the "lines of longitude"?
This is what causes the phenomenon seasons.
What is "Earth's revolution"?
A dark area created by a body coming between a light source and a surface.
What is a "shadow"?