Revolution
Give the definition of rotate.
What is to spin around?
Is the moon a satellite or a planet?
What is a satellite?
The earth orbits around the sun in this many days.
What is 365 1/4?
True or False: the sun is the largest star in outer space.
What is False?
This rotates on its axis.
What is the Earth?
This is how long it takes the moon to go through a full cycle of phases.
What is one month?
The Earth spins on this imaginary line down the middle, which is why the Earth is tilted.
What is its axis?
Not including Pluto, how many planets are in our solar system.
What is 8?
Throughout a month the moon goes through different ___________ which show the amount of light that is reflected from the sun.
What are phases?
The Earth is this many miles away from the Sun
What is 93 million miles?
What is counter-clockwise?
Give the definition of the word axis.
What is the imaginary line that connects North and South Pole that the earth rotates around.
Approximately how many moons will fit across the earth
What is 4?
This is a pulling force between two objects. We have it here on Earth and the moon has it, but it is much less.
What is gravity?
Write the four seasons in order starting from the season it is on January 1st.
What is winter, spring, summer, and fall?
This is the shape that the earth makes when it orbits the sun (hint: it is not a perfect circle).
What is an ellipse?
Why does the moon appear to be the same size as the sun even though it is much smaller?
What is that the moon is much closer to the earth?
What continent and hemisphere is the state of Delaware located in?
What is North America and the Northern Hemisphere?
The name of our Galaxy.
What is milky way?