Earth- Sun- Moon System | Solar System and the Universe | Space Potpourii | Electricity and Magnetism Review! |
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What is Earth's rotation
What causes the stars to appear to move across the night sky?
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What is 1AU?
How far (in AU) is the Earth from the sun?
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What is a 90-degree angle?
What angle to the sun, earth, and moon make when the moon is a first and third quarter?
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What is an electric charge?
What is the invisible field around charged particles called?
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What is Earth's revolution
What earth movement causes the pattern of seasons we observe?
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What is its distance from the sun?
What determines the length of a planet's year?
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What is the heliocentric model?
What model shows the sun as the center?
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What is increase?
When 2 like poles move closer together potential energy does what?
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What are gravity and inertia?
What 2 forces keep planets and moons in orbit?
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What is electromagnetic radiation?
What do space telescopes measure?
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What are the moon's rotation and revolution?
What causes us to only see one side of the moon?
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What is like poles repelling OR opposite poles repelling?
What causes magnetic levitation?
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What is a waxing crescent?
What phase of the moon follows a new moon?
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What are distance and mass?
What are two things that affect gravity between two objects?
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A dwarf planet is spherical, orbits the sun, but has not cleared its orbit path of debris.
What is a dwarf planet?
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Negative particles will leave the charged object and move to a more positively charged object (the doorknob) in a process called static discharge
What happens when an object charged with static electricity comes into close proximity with a doorknob?
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What are the summer solstice, fall equinox, winter solstice, and spring equinox?
What are the names of the 4 days that signal the changes of seasons?
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What are spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, irregular galaxies, and quasars?
What are the 4 types of galaxies?
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The apparent motion of an object against distant background stars.
What is parallax?
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When current is flowing through a circuit it generates a magnetic field we can observe with compasses.
How are electric currents and magnetic fields related?
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