Earth-Moon-Sun Relationships! How Rotation and Revolution affect us.

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Earth-Moon-Sun Relationships! How Rotation and Revolution affect us

Transcript of Earth-Moon-Sun Relationships! How Rotation and Revolution affect us.

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Earth-Moon-Sun Relationships!

How Rotation and Revolution affect us

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Rotation or Revolution?

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Rotation!

• Just as a tire rotates about an axis, the Earth rotates about an imaginary axis of 23.5 degrees!– What the axis contribute to?

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Rotation or Revolution?

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Revolution!

• Movement of one object around another!• Earth revolves around sun.• Moon revolves around Earth but does not

rotate on an axis!– Always see same side of moon!!

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Moon Phases

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For Today….• Read Sun-Earth-Moon fact sheet in groups– Practice your demonstration of the relationship and show

me

• Get your journal and describe demonstration using “rotation” and “revolution”.

• Grab a textbook and turn to page 648 to help you complete moon phase worksheet.

• Big Bang Balloon worksheet due today…didn’t get them all!!