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| What determines the length of a day? |
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| Earth's rotation around the sun. |
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| What are the phases of the moon in order? |
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| New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Wanning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Wanning Crescent, New Moon |
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| What determines the length of a year? |
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| Earth's revolution around the sun. |
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| Describe the tilt of Earth's axis |
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| Earth's axis is tilted at 23.5 degrees. |
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| A pattern of weather and temperature trends. |
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| The tilt of the Earth towards the sun. |
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| How does the tilt of the Earth's axis and the Earth's movement around the sun cause seasons? |
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| When the North Pole tilts away as the Earth revolves around the sun, it is Winter. When the Earth's South Pole tilts away from the Sun, it is Summer in the northern hemisphere. |
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| Sunlight shines equally on both hemispheres. |
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| The time in the year when the northern hemisphere gets the most sunlight. |
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| When does the equinox happen? |
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| Fall (September) and Spring (March) |
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| When does the solstice happen? |
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| December (Northern Hemisphere gets the least amount of light) and June (Northern Hemisphere gets the most amount of light). |
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| Daily changes in the level of ocean water. |
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| The Sun's and moon's gravitational pull on Earth. |
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| Difference between ocean water levels at high and low tide. |
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| When half the moon is in the sunlight. |
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| Near side of the moon is more than half lit but not fully lit. |
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| When the near side of the moon is again only half in sunlight. |
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| Near side of the moon is unlit |
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| How long is our moon cycle? |
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| What keeps the moon orbiting around Earth? |
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| Earth's gravitational pull on the moon |
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| Earth is in between the Sun and the Moon. The shadow on the moon is the Earth. |
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| Lighter shadow during an eclipse. |
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| The darkest part of a shadow during any type eclipse. |
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