Light and Time
There are ___ hours in a day.
What is 24.
A spinning motion.
What is rotation
Water that is safe for human consumption
What is potable
What is the shape of the earth?
An oval.
Name three rock types.
Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.
When it is midnight on the opposite side of the world than us, it is ______ .
What is noon or 12:00.
Astronomy
What is the study of the universe and everything in it.
Almost 70% of Earth's water is in _________________.
What is glaciers and icecaps
What is the line that crosses the center of the Earth?
The equator.
There are ____ seas.
What is seven.
What country is completely opposite from us on the globe?
India.
A map of the stars in the sky that shows which stars are depending on the seasons and time of year.
What is a star chart
Water covers about ____% of Earth's surface.
71%.
What causes the seasons?
Seasons are caused by Earth's axis tilting and it's orbit around the sun.
How much of the human body is water?
Around 60%.
The earth makes one complete revolution around the sun every _______ days.
What is 365 days.
Orbit
What is the path an object follows as it moves around another object.
What is an artesian aquifer?
An aquifer under pressure.
What would happen if the gravity between the Sun and the Earth were to stop?
Earth would fly off into space in a straight line.
True or False
Coral reefs are the largest living structures on the Earth.
What is True
What is an eclipse?
Nebulas
What is a massive cloud of dust and gas that fills the space between stars.
Reverse Osmosis is a water purification process that removes _______________________ from the water.
What is unwanted molecules and larger particles.
One which day is the earth closest to the sun?
January 3.
The sun is about _____ times larger than the moon.
What is 400