Revolution
When the Earth or other planets move around the Sun in an orbit.
What is Revolution?
When the Earth or another celestial body spins in its own axis.
What is rotation?
Our own natural satellite.
What is the moon?
23 degrees
What is Earth's Tilt?
What is the difference between a Meteor and a Meteorite?
Meteor: shooting star, flying through our atmosphere.
Meteorite: a meteor that makes it to the Earth's ground.
This is how long it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun.
What is a year?
365 days
1 revolution
In what direction do most planets, including Earth, rotate?
Counter Clockwise Rotation?
This is how long it takes the moon to go through a full cycle of phases.
What is one month/27 days?
The main cause of the seasons on Earth:
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.
What is the Earth's tilt?
When the Sun is blocked from our view by the moon.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
This satellite revolves around the Earth.
What is the moon?
This is the amount of time it takes the Earth rotate one time.
What is one day/24 hours?
When you only see half of the moon.
What is a quarter?
The Earth faces different parts of the night sky throughout the year.
Why do we see different starts during the year?
When the Moon is blocked from our view by the Earth.
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
Why do the outer planets take longer to complete one full revolution around the Sun?
Distance.
This why we only see one side of the moon.
What is synchronous rotation?
The moon rotates and revolves at the same time.
When we see two full moons in one month.
What is a blue moon?
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?
The Moon's gravitational pull on Earth's oceans creating a bulge of water as the Earth rotates. We have four of them each day.
What are tides?
Revolution is responsable for the different patterns of stars we see in the night sky.
What are constellations?
The only planet that rotates clockwise or has retrogade rotation.
What is Venus?
As the moon revolves around the Earth, the sun's rays get blocked producing "different types of moons".
What causes phases of the Moon?
The part of the Earth that is tilted toward the sun is having this season.
What is summer?
The different patterns of stars we see in the night sky as the Earth makes one revolution around the sun year.
What are constellations?