Key Terms
The path an object takes as it revolves around another object in space
What is an orbit?
When you watch a sunset, the reason you think the Sun is moving across the sky.
What is the Earth spinning (rotating) around its axis?
Longer days in summer and shorter days in winter
How does daylight change throughout the year?
The constellation nicknamed "the Lion."
What is Leo?
The southernmost point on Earth as determined by the planet's rotation
What is the South Pole?
The number of complete spins the Earth makes from Sunday evening to Friday evening.
What is five?
This causes the light we see reflected from the Moon to grow larger, shrink smaller, and then grow larger again over time.
What happens when the moon revolves around the Earth?
The constellation nicknamed "the Hunter."
What is Orion?
The northernmost point on Earth as determined by the planet's rotation
What is the North Pole?
If the Earth were to spin twice as fast as it does now, the number of hours in one day (one complete spin).
What is 12?
The Sun appears to move higher and then lower in the sky as the day progresses.
What happens because the Earth is on a titled axis?
Cassiopeia, Pegasus, and Cygnus
What are fall or autumn constellations?
Making a complete spin on an axis
What is rotation?
If the Earth were to spin half as fast as it does now, the number of hours in one day (one complete spin).
What is 48?
This causes objects in our sky to appear differently.
What is the rotation and revolution of the Earth and the Moon?
The constellation nicknamed "the Ice Cream Cone."
What is Bootes?
An imaginary line that a sphere rotates around
What is an axis?
This would be different about the sunrise and sunset if the Earth were to spin in the opposite direction (clockwise).
What is the sunrise and sunset would be in the opposite direction? (sunrise in the west and sunset in the east)
These stay in one spot, but appear to move across the night sky.
What are stars?
Canis Major, Orion, and Taurus
What are winter constellations?