The Moon
New Moon
A solstice is when the days are the longest/shortest. In the northern hemisphere the summer solstice is when they are the longest, and the winter solstice is when they are the shortest.
What is the dwarf planet in our solar system?
Pluto
What is the 6th planet from the sun?
What does waning mean.
Waning means that the lighted portion of the moon is growing smaller.
How many phases of the moon are there?
8
What is an equinox?
An equinox is when all the days are of equal lengths. There is the fall and spring equinox.
An asteroid is a rocky object too small to be a planet, a meteoroid is a small fragment of an asteroid.
In order from the sun, what are the planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
What is a fualt?
A fualt is a break in a mass of rock where movement occurs.
what is a solar eclipse?
A solar eclipse is when the moon is lined up with the sun in such a way that it casts a shadow over the Earth.
What causes the seasons?
The Earth's tilt towards or away from the sun.
What is a comet?
a loose collection of ice, dust and rocks.
What is the difference between inner and outer planets?
Inner planets are small, have high densities, and rocky surfaces. Outer planets are large, have low densities, and gaseous surfaces.
What is the mantle?
The mantle is the layer below the crust. It is the thickest layer of the Earth, and is made of mostly silicates. It acts sort of like a liquid, and has convection currents in it.
The moon's gravitational pull on the Earth causes water to be attracted to the moon, which in turn causes high and low tides.
Why is it colder in the winter than the summer?
The northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, so we are receiving sunlight at a less direct angle, therefore it is colder.
What are the parts of a comet?
The nucleus, coma, dust tail, and and the ion tail.
Which planet rotates vertically rather than sideways.
Uranus.
What is a volcano?
a volcano is a weak spot in the Earth's crust where molten rock fragments and hot gases erupt.
A neap tide is when the moon and the sun are causing tides perpendicular to each other. This is when there is the smallest difference between high and low tide.
They have a tilt on their axis very similar to the Earth's, however they are further/closer to the sun so the temperatures will be different.
What are the characteristics of a true planet?
What is one AU equal to?
93,000,000 miles or the distance from the Sun to the Earth