seasonal vocab Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What are seasons? | short periods of climate change caused by changes in the amount of solar radiation an area receives |
What is direct light? | when something is tilted more towards the light it gets more direct light |
What is indirect light? | when something is tilted away from a light it receives indirect light |
Describe Earth's tilt. | The earth is tilted on its axis not straight up and down |
Define orbit. | It is a pathway that the earth follows |
What is revolution? | when the earth spins around the sun once every 365 days giving us a year |
Define axis. | it is an imaginary line that runs perpendicular to the equator |
What is rotation? | when the earth spins on its axis one time every 24 hrs creating night and day |
What is solstice? | the days when earth is most tilted toward the sun |
What is a equinox? | the days when earth is not tilted towards the sun |
Describe moon phases(space view). | the moon phases viewed from space |
Describe moon phases(earth view) | the moon phases viewed from earth |
What is gibbous? | having the observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle |
What is a crescent? | the curved shape of a waxing or waning moon |
What is waxing? | new moon to full moon; lit surface seen from earth grows larger |
What is waning? | full moon to new moon; lit surface seen from earth grows smaller |
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