Seasons
What is summer?
The number of degrees Earth is tilting on it's axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The number of days it takes the moon to complete one cycle of moon phases.
What is 28-30 days?
Because our sun is the closest star to Earth, it appears ____________.
What is brighter?
What ancient people called the planets that they could see in the sky that seemed to move.
What is a wandering star?
What is winter?
The number of hours it takes Earth to make one complete rotation.
What is 24 hours?
Where the moon gets its light.
What is the sun?
In ancient times they used this to tell time.
What is a sun dial?
The word month came from this word.
What is moonth?
What is the summer solstice?
The number of days it takes Earth to revolve one time around the sun.
What is 365 days?
When we see more and more of the lighted area of the moon from Earth.
What is waxing?
What is a star?
We see different constellations at different times of the year due to the Earth's __________.
What is revolution?
The days that have equal amounts of daylight and darkness that occur on March 20 and September 22.
What is the vernal and autumnal equinox?
The place on Earth where the seasons don't change very much through the year.
What is the equator?
When we see less and less of the lit part of the moon each night.
What is waning?
When the moon passes between Earth and the sun during the daytime, blocking out the light.
What is a solar eclipse?
The order of the planets in our solar system.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
When the earth travels in it's orbit and it causes seasons.
What is a revolution?
Earth is considered this because it is an inner planet.
What is a rocky planet?
What is waxing crescent?
The sun rises and sets because of this.
What is rotation?
The number that early Egyptians could count to with one hand.
What is 12?