Sun-Earth-Moon
Foucault Pendulum and the Corialis Effect
Two ways to demonstrate the rotation of the earth.
When the sun is overhead at its farthest distance of the equator
What is a solstice?
2nd planet from the sun.
What is Venus?
This planet takes 84 years to rotate around the sun.
What is Uranus?
When the moon is not visible from the earth.
What is the new moon?
4 minutes longer than it takes earth to rotate once on its axis
Length of one earth day
Line of latitude that designates the solstice in the Northern hemisphere.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The planet that has a moon that orbits in the opposite direction of the planet's own rotation.
What is Neptune and Triton?
Number of moons that Venus has.
What is "none"?
When the full moon begins shrinking and all but a small sliver of it can be seen.
What is a waning gibbous?
The plane of earth's orbit
What is the ecliptic plane?
Line of latitude that designates the solstice in the Southern hemisphere.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
Planet that is 93 million miles away from the sun.
What is the earth?
Atmosphere made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, .93% argon
What is earth?
Right after the New Moon when only a small sliver can be seen but it will continue to grow.
What is a waxing crescent?
The result of the earth's tilt and its orbital rotation around the sun
What is the cycle of seasons?
When the earth is midway between solstices in the Northern hemisphere.
What is the autumnal equinox?
The Red Planet
What is Mars?
Planet whose temperature can rise to 750 degrees Fahrenheit on its sunny side.
What is Mercury?
29.5 days
How many days does it take the moon to complete all its phases?
23.5 degrees
What are the degrees of earth's axis tilted at?
When the earth is midway between solstices in the Southern hemisphere.
What is the vernal equinox?
Planet that has 62 moons
What is Saturn?
The planets in order from the sun
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
8
How many moon phases are there?