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Moon Phases
Shadows
How long? How many?
Potpourri
100
The phase of the moon when we cannot see the moon.
What is new moon?
100

Shadows give information about the position of this.

What is the sun?

100
What is the length of time it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun?
365 days or one year
100
The motion the Earth does on its axis?
What is rotate?
200
The phase of the moon that is completely illuminated by the sun?
What is a full moon?
200

This is the time of day that shadows would be at their shortest.

What is noon time (12:00pm)?

200
What is the length of time it takes the Earth to rotate one time on its axis?
about 24 hours
200

From Largest to smallest the size of the Earth, Moon and Sun.

What is Sun, Earth and Moon?

300
This is the source of the moon's light.
What is the sun?
300

The direction the sun rises and sets.

What is it rises in from the East and sets in the West?

300

What is the length of time it takes the moon to orbit the Earth?

What is about 28 days?

300
Daily Double. (Make a wager)
The reason the sun appears to move across the sky.
400

Name the phase that comes after the New Moon.


What is waxing crescent?

400

If a student observed the position of the sun above a building at noon in January and then compared the sun again at noon in March, the apparent height of the sun would do this.

What is move higher in the sky?

400
Daily Double (Make a wager)
The number of times you have traveled around the sun if you are 10 years old.
400

He said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

What is Neil Armstrong?

500
This is the reason for the different shapes of the moon.
What is only part of the moon gives off light reflected from the sun at different times of the month because of the angle of sunlight hitting it as it orbits the Earth
500

The way shadows change throughout the day.

What is when the sun rises shadows are long and the sun is low in the sky.  The sun changes positions throughout the day because the earth is spinning.  Around noon time the shadow is the shortest because the sun is overhead and then the shadows become larger again as the sun gets lower in the sky towards the west.

500

Leap year happens every _____ years because ....

What is 4 years and because it takes the Earth 365.25 days 

500

How many natural satellites does the Earth have?

What is one and it's called the moon.