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Definition of Inertia

Tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.

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What happens when the area in which you live tilts away from the sun...

What is Winter time?

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What causes the phases of the moon...

What is reflection from the sun?

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What happens when the area in which you live tilts towards the sun...

Summer time

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What causes seasons on the Earth?

Tilt of the Earth, revolution of the Earth

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Path of an object around a fixed point in space
What is an Orbit?
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The sun appears to move across the sky during the day. The best explanation for this apparent motion is..

What is rotating on its axis

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What is a solar eclipse?

When the Moon cast a shadow onto the Earth.

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At what angle is the Earth tilted?

23.5 Degrees

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In which calendar months do we experience a solstice?

June and December

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The force of attraction between all masses in the universe
What is Gravitational Force?
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Two factors that would increase the amount of gravitational force

What is a higher mass in the object and a closer distance

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Explain the Geocentric model of the universe.

Earth is at the center of the universe and all things orbit around it.
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Explain the Heliocentric model.

Sun is at the center of the universe and all objects orbit around it.
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What is the first and last phase of the Moon phases?

The New Moon. Waning Crescent

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Portion of the earth is facing the sun
What is Day time?
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What is a lunar eclipse? 

When the Earth cast a shadow onto the Moon.

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Jordans have a mass of .60 kg and a baseball has a mass of .35 kg. Which has a bigger gravitational force?

What is Jordans?

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Why do we always see the same side of the Moon from Earth?

Moon is tidally locked with Earth. It completes one spin on its axis in the same amount of time it takes to orbit the Earth.

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Definition of Eclipse

The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another.

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Fixed point object is spinning on
What is an Axis?
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All of the phases of the moon in order

What is New Moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent

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What two things causes the Earth's tides?

The gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun.

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How long does it take the Moon to make one complete revolution around Earth?

29 Days 

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During which Moon phase can a solar eclipse occur, and why can’t it happen every month even though the Moon orbits Earth regularly?

The Moons orbit is tilted, it rarely crosses in the path of the Sun and the Earth.