Sun
What is the sun?
The Sun is a star.
The sun is a ball of hot burning gas
What is Earth?
Earth is a planet
True or false. Shadows stay in the same place all day long.
False
The Sun moves.
False
The Earth ____________________. (motion)
rotates
True or False. Shadows change size
True
The Sun gives Earth what?
Light and heat.
The Earth does this around the sun.
Orbits
When shadows are long
the sun is low in the sky.
When Earth orbits around the sun on its axis that causes ?
How long does it take for the Earth to orbit around the sun?
365 days or 1 year
When shadows are shorter
the sun is high in the sky
The Earth rotates and passes the sun causing ...
Day and Night
When the Earth completes 1 rotation that is equal to?
24 hrs or 1 day.
What causes the size, shape,and position of shadows to change?
Sunlight shining from different directions.