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The length of time is takes Earth to revolve.
What is 365.24 days or 1 year?
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100 The order of the Moon, Sun, and Earth during a solar eclipse.
What is the Sun, Moon, and Earth?
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100 The moon phase where the moon is the most lit.
What is the full moon?
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100 The path Earth travels around the sun.
What is the orbit?
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100 This is the season when there is more direct sunlight.
What is summer?
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200 The length of time is takes Earth to rotate.
What is 24 hours or 1 day?
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200 Picture A
What is a lunar eclipse?
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200 The fraction of the moon that is always lit by the sun.
What is ½?
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200 The definition of rotation.
What is spinning on an axis?
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200 The date when we are closest to the sun at this time.
What is January 3?
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300 The length of time it takes to complete a lunar cycle from full moon to full moon.
What is about 1 month or 29 days?
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300 The rise and fall of the ocean waters are caused by this.
What is the moon’s gravitational pull?
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300 Picture B
What is 3rd quarter?
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300 Seasons are caused by this. (2 reasons)
What is Earth’s tilt and Earth’s revolution?
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300 The seasons that start with the solstice.
What is winter and summer?
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400 The reason we have a leap year.
What is the .24 day in 365.24 days it takes to revolve around the sun?
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400 The definition of a solar eclipse.
What is when the moon’s shadow appears on Earth’s surface?
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400 The side of the moon that is lit up during the waxing crescent.
What is the right side?
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400 The season the square is experiencing. Picture D
What is summer?
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400 The asteroid belt is 4.5 astronomical units away from the sun. If 1 AU = 5 cm, how many cm will the asteroid belt be on our model?
What is 22.5 cm?
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500 The definition of revolution.
What is an object and orbits around another object?
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500 This is the reason more people have seen a lunar eclipse.
What is for a solar eclipse you must be in a specific spot on Earth while the entire half of the Earth can see a lunar eclipse?
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500 Picture C
What is waxing gibbous?
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500 On December 21, the southern hemisphere experiences _________ and the northern hemisphere experiences ____________.
What is summer and winter?
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500 An effect that we would experience without gravity.
What is no tides (moon), no Earth orbit, no moon revolution?