Chaper 8 Flashcards
Earth completes one rotation on its every hours.
Axis 29
When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is in the Southern Hemisphere
Summer
The Northern or southern half of earth
Hemisphere
An invisible line that runs through the middle of an object
Axis
What earth does every 24 hours on its axis
Rotate
Earth’s closest neighbor in space is the
Moon
Moonlight is reflected light from the
Sun
The moon orbits earth once in just over days.
29
At any given time, the sun lights of the moon.
one half
The moons gravity causes
Tides
When comets get close to the sun, the from a
Tail
I am a meteoroid that strikes earth’s surface.
Meteoroid
I am 1 of the largest objects orbiting the sun.
Plants
The orbits of the plants are shaped like a
Ellipses
The four other plants lie behind
Mars