Shadows
When the sun is low in the sky, its shadow is long or short?
What is long?
In science we use observations to make what?
What are predictions?
The Earth's Revolution around the sun once takes this amount of time?
What is 365 days?
The sun appears to rise (come up) in the East and set (go down) in the West.
What is true?
When the sun is low in the sky, the angle of the sun is large or small?
What is small?
The Solar system is so large that scientists use these smaller representations to study it.
What are models?
The Earth does this around the sun.
What is revolves? or
What is orbits?
The tilt of the Earth on its axis are the primary (main) reason that Earth has seasons.
What is true?
When the sun is high in the sky - at a ninety degree angle it is this time of day.
What is noon? or What is 12 p.m.?
Where it appears that the sky meets the surface (land or water) of the Earth.
What is the horizon?
The path the Earth takes around the sun is called this.
What is its orbit?
The Earth's path around the sun is a perfect circle. Explain
What is false?
What is it is an ellipse (oval)?
When the sun is coming from the North East, the shadow it casts is in this direction.
What is South West?
The imaginary pole that passes through the center of the Earth.
What is the axis?
The direction the Earth rotates? clockwise or counter clockwise?
What is counter clockwise?
The Earth stays still and the sun revolves around it.
What is False?
The shadow the sun casts is always in the ________direction.
What is opposite direction?
How often the Earth rotates on its axis.
What is once every 24 hours?
When scientist collect data they put that data on one of these to make it easier for us to see, analyze and answer questions about it.
What is a graph?
When you play shadow tag it is harder to play at 12 noon than it is to play in the early morning. Explain
What is True? What is because your shadow is shorter at noon and harder to step on?