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seasons and planets
Cards in this deck (12)
- 1order of the planetsMercury
Venus
earth
mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune - 2solar systemsun and objects orbiting it
- 3what is the planets orbit shapeelliptical
- 4gravityforce of attraction between two objects
- 5what stops the planets flying awayThe gravitational pull of the Sun,
countered by velocity of the
orbiting object, keep planets
in orbit around the Sun. - 6why do we have day and nightthe earth rotates on its axis
- 7how do the stars prove evidence the earth rotatesthey move across the night sky
- 8define a yearthe time it takes for an object to orbit a star
- 9why do we have seasonswe have seasons because the earths axis is tilted
- 10why is it warmer in summer than winterbecause of the tilt in the earths axis at different points in the year England is closer to the sun so more light hits it in summer and in winter we are tilted away from the sun
- 11one daythe time a planet takes to spin once on its axis. A day on Earth is 24 hours.
- 12rotation directionEarth rotates anticlockwise, so the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
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- 8 Science (space) Flashcards on seasons and planets, created by 14jsmith on 27/05/2016.
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