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Earth
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Seasons
Space
Vocabulary
100
The 24 hour cycle of Earth's rotation
What is a day?
100
it reflects the sunlight off its surface
How is the moon lighted?
100
the weather is hot at during the winter
What is the weather in the Southern Hemisphere during the winter?
100
the Milky Way Galaxy
What galaxy do we live in?
100
any natural or artificial object that orbits another object
What is a satellite?
200
When half of Earth faces away from the sun
What is night?
200
when the full moon passes through Earth's shadow and is hidden
What is a lunar eclipse?
200
it is very cold all year long
What is the weather at the North/South Poles?
200
balls of ice and rock that circle the sun
What are comets?
200
an imaginary line that passes through the Earth’s center.
What is an axis?
300
When the half of the Earth faces the sun
What is day?
300
when the moon's entire disk is in sunlight
What is is a full moon?
300
when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
When is summer in the Northern Hemisphere?
300
large round bodies that revolve around a star
What are planets?
300
the force that pulls all objects in the universe toward one another
What is gravity?
400
It moves in an elliptical path
What shape is the Earth's orbit around the sun?
400
the moon's phases seen during a month
How long is the time period when different phases of the moon can be seen?
400
as the Earth orbits, it tilts on it's axis
What causes seasons?
400
chunks of rock that look like giant potatoes
What are asteroids?
400
everything that exists: planets, stars, gases, & energy
What is the universe?
500
the point in the Earth's orbit when the hours of daylight and darkness are equal
What is an equinox?
500
because there is no atmosphere
Why is there no life on the moon? Why do footprints on the moon not disappear?
500
December 21
What is the winter solstice?
500
Galileo
Who was the first person to use a telescope?
500
the curved path one object in space takes around another
What is an orbit?