The Sun
The Sun is made up of these.
What are hot gases?
The moon appears to change shape during the month because of this.
What is the moon's orbit around the Earth, which causes the angle of the Sun's reflection change, so we see different phases (shapes) of the moon at different times of the month. Or, what is the positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.
An imaginary pole on which Earth spins.
What is an axis?
This causes a shadow to form.
What is when an object blocks a light source?
My natural satellite is the Moon. I am 70% water.
What is the Earth?
The Sun is...
What is a star?
This causes tides to happen on Earth.
What is the gravitational pull from the Moon, pulling water on the side closest to and opposite the moon (high tide).
The weight of an object is the _________________, which depends on the mass of the object.
What is gravity?
What is the Earth's tilt? It's tilting away from the sun which causes the Northern Hemisphere to have less daylight hours
This causes day and night on Earth.
What is Earth's rotation.
The sun is a part of this large body of planets.
What is our Solar System?
What is a full moon?
The direction of Earth's gravitational pull.
This has greater gravitational pull, the Earth or the Moon.
What is toward the center of the Earth?
What is the Earth.
At noon, a shadow looks like this.
At noon, a shadow is directly overhead and it looks short.
A Star
What is a huge ball of gas that produces heat and light. The Sun is a star.
The main purpose of the Sun on Earth is to...
The main purpose of the Sun is our Solar System is to...
What is produce light and heat on Earth?
What is hold the Solar System together with its gravity?
This type of tide occurs when the moon is at a first quarter or third quarter moon.
And this type of tide occurs when the moon is at full moon and new moon phases.
What is neap tide?
What is spring tide?
These characteristics make the planet Earth habitable.
What are light and heat from the Sun, atmosphere, liquid water, sources of food?
Shadows are ______________ in the summer months and ________________ in the winter months.
What is shorter and longer.
The Sun has this many planets.
What are 8?
Name 4 characteristics of the Moon.
What are:
It is Earth's natural satellite?
It has a cratered surface?
It causes tides (pulls on Earth's water)?
It rotates on its axis?
It revolves around the Earth?
The sun will appear larger and brighter on Earth than on Neptune because Earth is closer to the Sun.
________________ help us tell what season it is. They are only visible during one season because of this.
What are constellations? What is, they are on the opposite side of the sun?
_______________ happens every 24 hours, and ______________ happens every 365 days.
What is rotation and revolution of the Earth around the Sun.