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The Earth
The Moon
Light and Shadows
Day/Night & Seasons
Misc./Vocab.
100
It takes ______________ for the Earth to revolve around the sun.
365 days
100
The ________ ________ is the phase of the moon where you cannot see the moon at all.
New Moon
100
When light is blocked by an object, it is _____________.
Absorbed
100
____________ are caused by the tilting of Earth's axis.
Seasons
100
The ________ is the imaginary rod through the top and bottom of Earth.
axis
200
It takes _____________ for the Earth to spin on its axis.
24 hours
200
The ________ ________ is the phase of the moon where you can see the whole surface.
Full Moon
200
When something blocks light, it creates a _____________.
Shadow
200
Day and night are caused by _______________________.
Earth's rotation on its axis
200
An _________ is the path a planet takes as it revolves around the sun.
orbit
300
The Earth spinning on its axis is called _______________.
rotation
300
It takes the moon _____________ to go through its cycle once.
28 days
300
When light is ________________, it bounces off back in the direction it came from.
reflected
300
___________ is the season when the North Pole is pointing toward the sun.
Summer
300
When Earth's shadow falls on the moon there is a _________ ____________.
lunar eclipse
400
________ is the force that holds us to Earth.
Gravity
400
_______________ show the impact on the surface of the moon as a result of meteors.
Craters
400
Light passes through objects that are ___________.
transparent
400
____________ is the season when we have the least amount of sunlight.
Winter
400
_________ - _________ - __________ is the order during a solar eclipse.
Earth - Moon - Sun
500
The ____________ is the Earth's only natural satellite.
moon
500
___________________ was the first man on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
500
When light is redirected by an object, we say the light is __________.
bent
500
_____________ is the warmest season in the Northern Hemisphere.
Summer
500
The moon seems to move in the sky each night because of Earth's _____________.
rotation