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Motion and Seasons
Motion and Seasons 2
Earth's Moon
Solar System
Solar System 2
100
What shape is earth?
What is a sphere.
100
Earth is closer to the Sun in ________ and farther away in ______.
What is January and July (elliptical orbit).
100
Dark-colored areas that look like oceans formed from lava flows.
What is maria.
100
The distance between the Earth and the Sun.
What is astronomical unit (AU)
100
Mars is made of this material ______ _______.
What is iron oxide.
200
Imaginary line drawn from north to south pole.
What is axis.
200
The Earth's axis always points toward the ______ _______.
What is the North Star.
200
The Moon is between the Earth and the Sun.
What is new moon.
200
The Sun is a ____.
What is star.
200
Great Red Spot, largest planet, and 63 moons.
What is Jupiter.
300
The spinning of the Earth on its axis. Causes "day and night".
What is rotation.
300
Twice a year, the Sun reaches its greatest distance North or South of the equator.
What is the solstices.
300
Growing in size, more light part is seen (first-quarter).
What is waxing moon.
300
Terrestrial planets
What is the inner planets.
300
What in the atmosphere gives Uranus and Neptune the blue-ish color?
What is methane.
400
Earth's motion around the Sun.
What is revolution.
400
Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is on....
What is June 21 or 22.
400
Decrease in size, less light part is seen (third-quarter).
What is waning moon.
400
Planet with no atmosphere.
What is Mercury.
400
Small, rocky objects that lie in the belt between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids.
500
Curved path Earth takes around the Sun.
What is orbit.
500
When the Sun is directly above the Earth's equator, it causes the night and day to be equal all over the Earth.
What is equinoxes.
500
The moon blocks the sunlight from reaching a portion of Earth's surface; occurs during new moon.
What is solar eclipse.
500
Earth's Twin...also the hottest planet.
What is Venus.
500
The solar system may have formed from a cloud of rotating ice, gases, and dust.
What is nebula.