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Earth rotates on its axis about once every year. |
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Night and day on Earth are caused by Earth's revolution around the sun. |
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A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth's shadow falls on the moon. |
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What are day and night caused by? |
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One complete revolution of earth around the sun takes about how many days? |
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Earth has seasons because of what? |
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When the North end of Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun, North america will experience... |
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What does the phase of the moon that you see depend on? |
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What do you see from a new moon phase to a full moon phase? |
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waxing cresent, first quarter, and a waxing gibbous. |
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what has to happen for a solar eclipse to occur? |
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the moon is between the earth and the sun casting a shadow. |
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