Movements of the Earth
Movements of the Earth Part 2
Representations of Earth
Where in the World?
Miscellaneous
100

The spinning of Earth on its axis

What is rotation?
100

What the Earth revolves around

What is the sun?

100

Imaginary lines that run north and south

What are meridians?

100

(41°N, 74°W)

New York City

100

Earth's only natural satellite

What is the moon?

200

The time it takes Earth to make one rotation

What is 24 hours?

200

The time it takes for one revolution of the Earth around the sun

What is 365.25 days?

200

Imaginary lines that run east to west

What are parallels?

200

(35°S, 149°E)

Canberra

200

A type of map that shows natural features like mountains, rivers and lakes

What is a physical map?

300

Rotation of the Earth causes these two things

What is day and night?

300

These four things are caused by the Earth's revolution

What are spring, summer, fall and winter?

300

Parallel of latitude of 0°

What is the equator?

300

The coordinates of Havana, Cuba

What is (23°N, 82°W)?

300

The number of days it takes the moon to revolve around Earth

What is 28?

400

The direction the sun rises

What is the east?

400

When the North Pole is tilted towards the sun, the Northern Hemisphere has this season

Summer

400

Meridian of longitude at 0°

What is the Greenwich Meridian?

400

The coordinates of Cape Town, South Africa

What is (34°S, 19°E)?

400

The phase of the moon when you can see the whole lit-up side

What is a full moon?


500

The angle the Earth is tilted at on its axis

What is 23.5 degrees?

500

When the South Pole is tilted away from the sun, the Southern Hemisphere experiences this season

What is winter?

500
the hemisphere Madrid is in

What is the Northern/Northwestern/Western hemisphere?

500

The coordinates of Samarkand, Uzbekistan

(40°N, 67°E)

500

The first man to walk on the moon

Who is Neil Armstrong?