planets
the sun
the moon
Seasons
Atmospheres
100
This is the planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
100
The sun is the center of this system.
What is the solar system?
100
The moon is a natural type of this that revolves around a bigger object.
What is a satellite?
100
When one hemisphere receives little sunlight due to the tilt of the earths axis.
What is Winter?
100
the most abundant element in the earths atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
200
This is the 6th planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
200
The sun is a type of this gas sphere that gives off light and heat.
What is a star?
200
These are the apparent shapes of the moon.
What are phases?
200
These two things cause the earth to experience seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth and its revolution around the sun?
200
This is what Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides have in common.
What is greenhouse gases?
300
This is what all the planets have in common
What is "they revolve around the sun?"
300
It takes the earth 365 1/4 days to do this.
What is revolve (orbit) around the sun?
300
The moon's gravitational pull causes this rise and fall of the ocean.
What are tides?
300
the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun in this season.
What is southern hemisphere's summer?
300
This layer in earths atmosphere is responsible for protecting us from harmful UV rays.
What is the Ozone layer?
400
These are the rocky planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
400
This is what 24 hrs for a planet to rotate on its axis is called.
What is one earth day?
400
This moon phase occurs when the moon is between the earth and sun so that the dark side of the moon faces earth
What is the new moon phase?
400
Fall is in September, October and November
What months is Autumn (Fall) in the Northern hemisphere?
400
A planet said to have a thin atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide.
What is Mars?
500
This is what Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have in common.
What are the gas giant planets?
500
This many earths can fit inside the sun.
What is 1,000,000?
500
When the sun light shines on more and more of the moon, we say that the moon is doing this.
What is waxing?
500
This area is often said to only have two seasons, wet and dry season.
What are the equatorial tropics?
500
These are harmful gases that are emitted from humans that destroy our ozone layer.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's)?