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Earth
The Moon
The Sun
Our Solar System
This and That
100
The spinning of earth on its axis
What is rotation
100
The force that keeps the moon revolving around Earth.
What is gravity.
100
The two main forms of energy the Sun provides
What are heat and light?
100
The center of our solar system
What is the sun?
100
The season the southern hemisphere is experiencing if we are having summer
What is winter
200
Term used to describe the Earth's movement around the Sun
What is revolution
200
The force that causes tides.
What is the moon's gravitational pull.
200
The season we are experiencing if the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun
What is summer?
200
The path a planet follows around the Sun.
What is an orbit.
200
The number of high and low tides per day
What is 2 high and 2 low
300
The time it takes for Earth to rotate once on its axis
What is 24 hours?
300
The number of days it takes the moon to rotate.
What is 29.5 or about a month?
300
The type of rays that cause Summer
What are direct rays?
300
The force that keeps all the planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity.
300
Times of the day when shadows are longest
What are early and late when sun low on horizon
400
The Earth's tilt causes this.
What are seasons.
400
The four main phases of the moon.
What is New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Third Quarter
400
The type of rays during winter
What are indirected / slanted / tilted rays?
400
Earth is the ____ planet from the sun.
What is the third
400
Two limitations to the sun-moon-earth model we did in class.
What are size, distance, orbits, etc.
500
Number of days it takes for Earth to revolve around the Sun.
What is 365.
500
The reason we see different phases of the moon.
What is the moon's revolution around the Earth.
500
Shadows change at different times of the day because of this.
What is Earth's rotation and position of the sun
500
The order of the planets, beginning with the one closest to the sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
500
The approximate between high and low tides
What is about 6 hours