Sun,+Moon,+and+Earth

Unit B Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

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Chapter 1 Vocab: (astronomer, atmosphere, crater, gravity, meteorite, star, sunspot, telescope) Choose which word(s) fit best Short Answer Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Creativity
 * 1) Material from space that lands on Earth
 * 2) Pit shaped like a bowl
 * 3) Device that makes faraway objects look larger
 * 4) Pull that every object has on every other object
 * 5) Ball of hot gases that give off energy
 * 6) Scientist who studies objects in space
 * 1) The Moon has no (Gravity, Atmosphere)
 * 2) A dark area on the surface of the Sun is a (flare, sunspot)
 * 3) The force of gravity determines your (height, weight)
 * 4) A bright area on the surface of the Sun is a (prominence, flare)
 * 1) If you weighed 60 pounds on Earth how much do you weigh on the moon?
 * 1) What covers the Moon's Surface? (Craters, Ice Sheets, Gases, Water Bodies)
 * 2) You are in charge of a research team that will be studying the Moon. You cannot leave Earth. The instruments you may use are (a telescope, a pair of binoculars, a camera, a space probe). Which one of those would give you the best view of the Moon?
 * 3) The Sun is a ? (planet, star, meteorite, moon)
 * 4) The Sun is ? (about the same size as the Moon, about the same size as Earth, much larger than Earth, much smaller than Earth)
 * 1) Draw, color, and label a picture of the sun. Use the words sunspots, flares, and prominences to label the sun.

Chapter 2 Study Guide: Word Box: axis, constellations, orbit, phases, planet, revolve, rotation, solar system, full moon, gravity, year. (words may be used more than once)
 * 1) The spinning motion of Earth is.
 * 2) The Sun and all objects that orbit it is called the.
 * 3) Make-believe line that runs through Earth's North and South Poles is called the.
 * 4) Nighttime star patterns are called.
 * 5) Changing shapes of the Moon are called.
 * 6) Earth's path around the Sun is called its __.__
 * 7) When you see the entire daylit half of the Moon, it is a.
 * 8) Earth rotates once on its  in 24 hours.
 * 9) Tides are caused by the Moon's.
 * 10) Earth makes one revolution around the Sun in a.


 * 1) The Moon's gravity makes the oceans rise and fall in  tides.
 * 2) weekly
 * 3) daily
 * 4) yearly
 * 5) monthly
 * 6) It takes one  for Earth to make a complete revolution around the Sun
 * 7) day
 * 8) week
 * 9) month
 * 10) year
 * 11) It looks like the Sun is moving across the sky throughout the day because.
 * 12) Earth is rotating
 * 13) the Sun is rotating
 * 14) the Sun revolves around Earth
 * 15) Earth revolves around the Sun
 * 16) The phases of the Moon occur because.
 * 17) Earth rotates
 * 18) the same side of the Moon always face Earth
 * 19) the Moon revolves around Earth
 * 20) the Moon rotates

Student made tests for Unit B Chapter 2 Group 1 Group 2 Group 3

Chapter 3 Vocab: equator, lunar eclipse, seasons, solar eclipse, axis
 * 1) When the Moon moves into Earth's shadow
 * 2) Spring, summer, fall, winter
 * 3) Imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the two poles
 * 4) When the Moon moves directly between the Sun and Earth
 * 5) An imaginary line that runs through the North Pole and the South Pole is Earth's.
 * 6) An imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the two poles is the.
 * 7) The tilt of Earth's axis causes each  to be different.
 * 8) A(n)  causes the Sun to seem to disappear.
 * 9) A  occurs when the Moon moves into Earth's shadow.


 * 1) Earth's tilted axis causes (eclipses, seasons)
 * 2) When the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the Sun, the season there is (winter, summer)
 * 3) When the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward the Sun, the season in the Southern Hemisphere is (spring, winter)
 * 4) The path of the Sun appears (highest, lowest) in the summer sky.