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Vocab
Earth
Seasons
The Big Picture
Everything else...
100
To spin, like a top
What is rotate
100
True or False....we can only see the moon at night
What is FALSE!!
100
Earth has seasons because of its ____________
What is tilt
100
Everything in OUR solar system orbits _____________
What is OUR sun
100
A planet that cannot "clear its neighborhood"
What is a dwarf planet
200
The curved path all planets follow around a star
What is orbit
200
The Sun's light shines more or less directly on parts of the Earth because of the Earth's _________
What is tilt
200
If Earth is having spring, what season is Brazil (South America) having?
What is fall
200
There are 100's of billions of _____________ in the Universe
What is galaxies
200
Meteoroids often break off of ____________
What is an asteroid
300
Any of the 8 main objects that travel around the sun
What is a planet
300
The part of the Earth always receives very direct sunlight
What is the equator
300
If China is having summer, what season is Ohio having?
What is summer
300
Everything that exists is part of the___________-
What is Universe
300
True or false: meteorites never hit the Earth
What is false!
400
To travel around something
What is revolve
400
Causes the sun to "set" each evening
The Earth's rotation on its axis
400
If Earth did NOT tilt on an axis, we would _____________
What is NOT have seasons
400
Our galaxy is called the _______________
What is Milky Way
400
Constellations appear to look different in the night sky each night because _________________
What is the Earth is moving
500
An oval shape
What is elliptical
500
The angle of the tilt of the Earth
What is 23.5 degrees
500
An example of a place on Earth that is NOT affected by seasonal change
What is the equator(tropical areas), the poles, mountains
500
The type of galaxy we live in
What is a spiral galaxy
500
Are called "dirty ice balls"
What are comets