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| Earth rotates on its axis about once every year. T/F |
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| Night and Day on Earth are caused by Earth's revolution around the sun. T/F |
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| A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth's shadow falls on the moon. T/F |
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| Day and Night are caused by? |
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| The Earth's rotation around its axis |
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| One complete revolution of Earth around the sun takes about? |
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| Earth has seasons because? |
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| Its 23.5 degree axis tilt |
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| When the North End of Earth's axis is tilted torward the sun, North America will experience? |
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| The phase of the moon depends on |
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| The position of the Sun, Earth, and Moon |
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| From New Moon phase to Full Moon phase you see(think amount of sunlight) |
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| Waning Cresent, 1st Quarter, Waning Gibbous |
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| For a solar eclipse to occur |
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| The moon has to be in between the sun and earth and casting a shadow on the earth |
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| During what phase can a lunar eclipse occur? |
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| When are tides the highest? |
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| Tides are caused mainly by? |
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| The gravitational pull of the Moon |
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| Scientists think the moon was formed when? |
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| An object the size of Mars crashed into the Earth breaking off a chunk of the Earth which formed into the Moon |
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| Earth's rotation takes about |
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| The Earth is tilted either torward or away from the Sun |
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| Because the moon rotates at the same rate as it revolves, you only see |
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