Numbers
What is 365 days? (or one year)
The Earth’s tilt causes these changes throughout the year.
What are seasons?
What is happening i the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
The phase of the moon when the moon looks like a full circle from earth.
What is a full moon?
What we call on the the shapes the moon seems to have as it orbits Earth.
What is a moon phase?
The earth takes this long to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, it is this season.
What is summer?
The phase of the moon when the moon cannot be seen from earth.
What is a new moon?
The path of one object in space around another object.
What is orbit?
It takes about this long to for the moon phases to complete one cycle (new moon to new moon)
What is one month? (28.5 days)
This season happens when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun.
What is winter?
Water that falls from the air to the Earth's surface
What is a precipitation?
The phase of the moon when the moon looks like the left half of a circle (when seen from the northern hemisphere).
What is a third quarter moon?
The spinning of a single object on its own axis, like the Earth spinning to cause day and night.
What rotation?
What is 7 days? (one week)
Which two seasons have the closest average temperatures?
What is spring and fall?
Measures temperature
What is an thermometer?
This term means "humped" or "swollen". It is what we call a moon that is more than half but not fully illuminated.
What is a gibbous moon?
How many seasons are in one year on earth?
What is 4?
Which season has the greatest amount of daylight hours?
What is summer?
This term mean "getting smaller" and describes the moon phases as the illuminated portion decreases each night between a full moon and a new moon.
What is waning? (example: waning crescent)