Earth
When it is winter in North America, Australia experiences this season.
What is summer?
The word "solar" refers to this celestial object.
What is the sun?
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 28ish days (about a month)?
The closest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
This word describes the Earth spinning continuously.
What is rotating?
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365.25 days?
The more direct the sun's light is and the more concentrated into a small area it is, the more the temperature does this.
What is increase?
This is the percentage of the moon that is always illuminated.
What is 50%?
*Follow up: then why do we see diff moon phases?
What is Polaris?
This imaginary line goes from the North Pole to the South Pole of the Earth.
What is the axis?
DAILY DOUBLE:
The shape of the Earth and the shape of its orbit.
What is a (slightly bulging) sphere and an ellipse?
The sun (and stars) appears to move across the sky, rising in the east and setting in the west due to this phenomena.
What is the Earth's rotation?
When this moon phase passes through Earth's orbital plane, we experience a lunar eclipse.
What is a full moon?
This is how seasonal stars appear to move through the sky (like the sun) due to Earth's rotation.
What is rising in the east and setting in the west?
These 2 things cause the Earth's seasons.
What are the tilt of the Earth AND its revolution around the sun?
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some (or all) of the the sun's light.
What is a solar eclipse?
Follow up: why don't we have these more often?
During this phase of the moon, we can see no moon at night.
What is the new moon phase?
These types of star are NOT always visible; they are only when they are ABOVE Earth’s orbital plane.
What are seasonal stars?
As we see less and less of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is waning?
When the North and South Poles are equal distance from the sun, and the sun is directly overhead at the equator at noon.
What is an equinox?
A solar eclipse happens when the sun grows darker and appears to change shape because light from the sun is blocked which moon phase?
What is a new moon?
During this phenomena, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a lunar eclipse?
follow up: WHY don't we have these more often?
A constellation that can be seen year round.
What is circumpolar constellation?
The latitudes furthest north and south that receive sunlight at a perpendicular angle.
What are the tropics?
(of Cancer and of Capricorn)