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Question | Answer |
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What is the length of rotation of the Earth? | 24 hours and 0 minutes |
Why can you see the Earth from space? | The Earth reflects the Sun's light. |
What can be found on the Earth but not on the moon? | atmosphere |
What in space is rocky, and very cold on the dark side? | The moon |
If the Earth rotated more slowly then what would happen? | Our days would be longer |
What must you have in order to have life? | liquid water |
If a person wanted to create a model of the day/night cycle what could they use? | turned on light bulb and globe |
The sun does not move across the sky during the day but ____________ rotates. | Earth |
How long does it take the Earth to rotate on its axis? | 24 hours |
How long does it take Earth to revolve around the Sun? | 365 days |
How much time will pass from one full moon until the next full moon? | ______ |
Why can the Earth be seen from space? | Because it reflects the sun's light. |
What force has caused the moon's surface to change? | |
What tools are used to observe bodies in space? | Telescope |
Describe an example of how the Sun warms our Earth | Light creates heat which is trapped down by our atmosphere. |
Explain a model of the day/night cycle. Where would you be on the Earth at midnight? | far side of earth away from sun |
_____________________- is Earth spinning on its axis. | rotating |
Why can some constellations NOT be seen from Earth during different seasons? | |
What are the order of the planets starting from the sun?> | Sun, Murcury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus |
Why do we have seasons? | Because Earth Revolves around the sun. |
A revolution is what? | A revolution is when the Earth goes around the sun. A complete circle. |
You are creating a model of the day/night cycle for your classmate. What materials would you need? | A lamp without a shade (cover) and a globe |
The Northern hemisphere, The Earth is the farthest from the sun in the ___________ | summer |
What causes seasons | The Earths tilt as it revolves around the sun. |
Does the Earth Stay the same distance from the earth as it revolves around the orbital path? | No |