Sun, Moon, Earth

What causes tides?

• The gravitational pull of the Sun only

• The gravitational pull of the Moon only

• The gravitational pull of the Earth

• The gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun on the Earth

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Why does Earth stay in its orbit around the Sun?

• The gravitational pull of the Moon

• The gravitational pull of the Sun

• The gravitational pull of Venus

• The gravitational pull of the earth

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What is this a picture of?

• a solar eclipse

• a lunar eclipse

• a solar solstice

• a lunar solstice

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The visible part of the Moon becomes larger

• Waxing

• waning

• New moon

• Crescent moon

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The visible part of the Moon becomes smaller

• full moon

• waxing

• waning

• crescent moon

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The daily rising and falling levels of the oceans and other large bodies of water

• oceans

• gravity

• lakes

• tides

the beginning of summer or winter: days on which the hours of daylight are longest or shortest

• eclipse

• solstice

• ellipse

• gravity

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the orbit of one object around another object

• circling

• spinning

• rotation

• revolution

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beginning of spring and fall; days on which hours of daylight equal hours of darkness

• lunar eclipse

• solstice

• eclipse

• equinox

movement of one solar system object into the shadow of another object

• equator

• equinox

• solstice

• eclipse

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