A force to be reckoned with
The invisible force that draws everything towards the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
The name given to Earth's spin on its own axis.
What is rotation?
Earth does not in fact revolve around you, however, it does revolove around this gassy body.
What is the sun?
What are constellations?
What is Sun?
A man digs a hole in the United States through the center of the Earth and comes out in China. He jumps back into the hole expecting to make it back to the United States. Where does he end up?
Where is the center of the Earth.
The rotation of the Earth is responsible for giving us a 24 hour period called this.
What is day and/or night?
Earth moves in an orbit around the sun in a pattern called this.
What is a revolution?
Stars that are _________ can appear brighter even though they may actually be less bright.
What is closer (to Earth).
The sun has apparent motion across the sky every day, however, this is the actual reason the sun appears to move.
What is the Earth rotates?
An object that has more ________ will have more gravitational force.
What is mass or weight?
The sun appears to rise is this direction and set in this one. That is why New York experiences morning before California experiences the same morning.
What is the East and West?
One revolution or trip around the sun takes this many days.
What is 365?
A star can have actual brightness called this based on the type, color or temperature of the star.
What is luminosity?
The Sun provides energy to the earth. This energy is often referred to as __________ power.
What is solar?
The sun's gravitational force is so strong that 8 of these bodies are held into orbit.
What are the planets?
One rotation of the Earth on its own axis takes roughly this amount of time.
What is 24 hours?
The tilt of the Earth on it's axis, combined with where the Earth is located in it's revolution determines the 4 of these.
What are the seasons?
Some stars may never be seen by some people on the Earth because they live in different halves of the Earth called these.
What are hemispheres?
The sun is not the brightest star in the sky. It appears so bright to us for this reason.
What is it is closest to the Earth?
The first theory of gravity was thought of in 1666, but not published until 1687. This idea came about from an apple falling onto this man's head.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Earth makes approximately this many full rotations as it revolves around the Earth.
What is 365?
On January 10th, what season will the people of Sydney Austraila be experiencing?
What is summer?
What is farming/planting crops and navigation or getting directions?
If the sun were to die out at this very moment, we would still have this long until the world went completely dark.
What is 7 - 8 minutes?