Lesson 1 Make-up Lab

THINKING ABOUT EARTH AS A PLANET

Use this internet cite to help you answer the questions below.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/ See the list under Planets. The Earth will be listed with 12 subtitles. Review all of them to answer the questions below.

1. List 10 ideas and 10 questions (that you do not know the answers to) about Earth in space. Do not use any of the questions listed below.

2. Record to responses to these common questions about space.

a. What is responsible for the length of one day?

b. What is responsible for the length of one year?

c. What causes seasons?

d. Why does the Moon appear to change shape?

e. What causes a lunar eclipse?

f. What causes a solar eclipse?

g. What are the points of light in the night sky?

h. Can you see them in daytime? Why or why not?

i. What processes created each landform?

j. Do these landforms exist on other planets or moons? Explain why or why not.

k. Where does gravity exist?

l. Where is gravity the strongest?

m. Where is it the weakest?

n. What keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun?

o. What causes tides?

3. Having answered the above questions; how is Earth different from other planets? How is Earth similar to other planets? If necessary go back to the web site and review the other planets to determine the similarities and differences in the Solar System.