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The shadow of the moon falls on the Earth. The order of the bodies are: Sun, Moon, Earth. |
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| Describe a lunar eclipse? |
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| The shadow of the Earth falls on the moon. The order of the bodies are: Sun, Earth, Moon. |
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| What is the name of the Earth's moon? |
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| What color does the moon look during an eclipse? |
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| What are the moon phases? |
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| How many days does it take for the moon to go around the Earth? |
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The moon's changing position as it orbits Earth |
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| The sunlit portion of the moon is getting larger. |
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| The sunlit portion of the moon is getting smaller. |
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| What causes the tides on the Earth? |
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| The pull of the moon on the Earth's oceans. |
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Do you ever see the oposite side of the moon from the Earth? |
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| What makes up an ion tail of a comet? |
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| Electrically charged gas particles. |
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| What direction does a comet's tail always point? |
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| How can meteriods be classified? |
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| stony, stony-metallic, metallic |
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| What makes up the solar system? |
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The Sun, Earth, ateroids, meteoroids, and the seven other planets. |
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List the planets in order from the Sun... My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos... |
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| Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
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List the terrestrial planets... |
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| Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
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| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
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| What type of galaxie do we live in? |
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terrestrial, rocky, dense, low mass |
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It usually contains billions of stars in a space much larger that our solar system. |
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| A pattern of stars in a region of the sky. |
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| Small, rocky bodies that revolve around the sun between Mars and Jupiter. |
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| The smallest, rocky and metallic bodies that travel through space. |
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| Describe the general shape of a spiral galaxie. |
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| Cinnamon bun or hurrican shape |
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