earth, moon and sun

Solstice

Longest and shortest days of the year and it happens twice

Equinox

12 hrs day and night and happens because the sun is directly above the equator happens in march 20 and September 22

Red giants form what?

White and black stars

What is the moon orbiting ?

Earth and the sun

How to find planets in the sky ?

Look in the line of the sun in the night or early morning and south

What causes the phases of the moon

The moons orbit around the sun causing the sun to illuminate the moon in different ways because the distance between them both

What is a lunar eclipse

Happens at nighttime and this is when the moon has reached the darkest part of earths shadow because earth is between the moon and sun so the moon appears to turn dark red. This lasted an hour

A lunar eclipse happens during what phase of the moon?

Only can occur on a full moon

during what phase can a solar eclipse occur ?

Only during a new moon

What is a solar eclipse?

This is when the moon is in between the sun and earth and can only happen during the day and lasting only around 7 minutes

How does the distance between the sun and the moon change throughout the moon phases

Durning the new moon the moon is at the closest point to the sun and by the full moon it’s at its farthest point from the sun

What would happen if earth didn’t have a moon?

Earth would be spinning way faster creating shorter days and we would have a much smaller ocean tides

What are the 8 planets from closest to the sun to farthest

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Mercury, Venus , earth, mars , Jupiter, staturn and Neptune

What are the inner planets called ?

Terrestrial planets

What are the outer planets called

Gas giants

What are the 4 gas giants

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

What are the 4 terrestrial planets

Mercury, Venus, earth mars

What planet has the longest orbit time ?

Neptune

What planet has the shortest orbit time ?

Mercury

How many stars are in the galaxy

Over 1 trillion

Inner plants are —- and ——

Outter planets are —- and —-

1. Terrestrial and rocky

2. Gas giants and icy

How do we know earth is rotating?

The coriolis effect and the fact there is a great impact with wind patterns the ocean circulation

Why is earth habitable

The greenhouse gasses and other gasses within our atmosphere and the fact earth has a gravitational field strong enough to hold our atmosphere

How we do we know the suns daily path is changing from month to month

We know the sun is changing from mouth to mouth because the because it’s colder and warmth throughout the year. In beginning of the year the sun is closer to each and our days are shorter but towards the summer the sun has made it far enough away to created our days to be long and for it to be warmer because the sun is farther away. Also because we see the sun rise in the east and set in the west everyday

Rotating

the movement of something spinning on its own or on its axis

Revolution

The orbit of something spinning around a center point.

Earth rotates what way

Counterclockwise

What are the colors of the hottest and coldest stars ?

Blue stars hottest

Red stars coldest

Nebula

Large cloud gas and dust that create a star

What causes day and night

The fact earth is rotating in its axis

What is nuclear fusion ?

It’s in the process of a star forming it’s when the star is giving out energy before reaching its full potential

Why can’t you see oryan in the summer time

Because we are in summer and that constellation is our winter constellation so it’s technically behind the sun because earth hasn’t orbited that way yet

What are the two main greenhouse gasses

Hydrogen and methane