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To spin in place like a top. http://nursery-store.com/products/52120.jpg

What is rotation?

This motion causes day and night on Earth. http://www.time.gov/images/xearths/3S/82S.jpg

What is rotation?

The direction that the Earth rotates. http://rip.physics.unk.edu/nepal/RotatingEarth.gif

What is counterclockwise or from west to east? http://library.thinkquest.org/J002349/clock.gif

The time is takes the Earth to rotate once. http://rip.physics.unk.edu/nepal/RotatingEarth.gif

What is 24 hours or one day? http://www.neon-signs.com/neon-shop/416-open-24-hours-border.jpg

The time of the day when the Sun is at its highest point in the sky.

What is noontime? http://www.wholeo.net/Trips/Travel/SV/gateway/dec99/images/dec99.13noonM.jpg

To orbit or circle around an object.

What is revolution?

This motion causes our year on Earth. http://www.thegolassocompany.com/8f2e9140.gif

What is revolution?

The direction that the Earth revolves. http://www.physics.uwo.ca/everyday-physics/images/earth-orbit.gif

What is counterclockwise? http://www.physics.uwo.ca/everyday-physics/images/earth-orbit.gif

The time is takes the Earth to revolve once.

What is 365 days (almost) or one year?

This feature of Earth is the reason for the seasons. http://atropos.as.arizona.edu/aiz/teaching/nats102/images/seasons.gif

What is the tilt of the Earth’s axis? http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/weather/features/images/earth_tilt.jpg

The Moon is this fraction of the Earth’s size. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venice/images/tide_step1.gif

What is ¼? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venice/images/tide_step1.gif

The approximate distance from the Earth to the Moon. http://www.keysan.com/pictures/cfel0359.jpg

What is 250,000 miles? http://www.keysan.com/pictures/cfel0359.jpg

This person was the first human to walk on the Moon. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/images/a11reflect.jpg

Who is Neil Armstrong? http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/armstron.jpg

The year when the first human walked on the Moon. http://www.integram.com/astro/Neil_Armstrong_Footprint.jpg

What is 1969? http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/image_gallery/flight/graphics/10075262.jpg

The bowl-like features found on the lunar surface. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/science/moltke.gif

What are craters? http://www.exo.net/~pauld/summer_institute/summer_day1perception/crater%3E.jpeg

The source of the Moon’s light. http://science.nasa.gov/images/bluemoon_fred.jpg

What is the Sun? http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/images/fullsize/thesun.jpg

Twenty-nine days or one “moonth.” http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ecuip/diglib/science/cultural_astronomy/images/phenom_moon-1.gif

How long does it take the Moon to orbit or revolve around the Earth?

The date of the full Moon in August. July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

What is about August 6th or 7th? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

The name of this phase of the Moon. http://reductionism.net.seanic.net/brucelgary/AstroPhotos/MoonPhases/B_001005_215845b&w.jpg

What is a first quarter Moon?

The name of this phase of the Moon. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~rmoench/moon.jpg

What is a full Moon?

The name for the space missions to the Moon. http://www.students.sbc.edu/mckinney03/gmm/images/apollo%20belvedere.jpg

What is Apollo? http://mek.kosmo.cz/pil_lety/usa/apollo/apollo.gif

The name for people who fly space missions. http://www.kidscolorpages.com/picimages/colorpages/astronaut.GIF

What are astronauts? http://www.spacetoday.org/images/Astronauts/ColumbiaAstronautsNASAphotos/STS107crew.jpg

The spacecraft that lands like a glider.

What is the space shuttle? http://www.kinderlexikon.de/themen/raketen/space-shuttle-landing1.jpg

This is the science term that means “moon.”

What is the term lunar?

This occurs when the Earth’s shadow blocks sunlight from striking the Moon.

What is a lunar eclipse? http://www.stargazingforeveryone.com/Lunar_Eclipse.jpg