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45 Cards in this Set
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The moon help us divide our year into how many months? |
12 months |
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How many days are in a year? |
365 1/4 |
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How are the days of the year determined? |
By one revolution of the earth around the sun |
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How is the length of our week determined? |
By God |
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What gives us our day which is 24 hours long? |
The rotation of the earth on its axis |
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The zodiac is a group of how many constellations? |
12 |
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What galaxy is our sun located? |
Milky Way |
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The part of our galaxy made up of our ______ and how many planets in the solar system? |
sun; eight |
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The universe is all things who created? |
God |
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What is the study of the planets? |
astronomy |
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What is a constellation? |
a star picture |
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How earth is how many miles from the sun? |
93 million |
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What is the sun made up of? |
gases |
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Of the earth, moon and sun which is the smallest of the three? |
the moon |
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Light colored objects reflect ______ and _________. |
heat and light |
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What Big Dipper is part of the constellation called the__________________. |
Great Bear |
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When you face the North Star, west is to your right or left? |
left |
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What keeps the planets circling the sun?
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the sun's gravity |
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Why type of moon do we see when the earth is directly between the sun and moon? |
Full moon |
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Holes on the surface of the moon is called, what? |
craters |
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The hard, smooth metamorphic rock that makes excellent blackboard is called, what? |
slate |
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What is conservation? |
the wise use of natural resources |
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What is matter that settles to the bottom or sides of a body of water? |
Sediment |
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What is a slow moving river of ice? |
glacier |
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What is humus? |
decayed material in soil |
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What is the wearing away of the earth's topsoil? |
erosion |
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What is a solid layer of rock underneath the soil? |
Crust |
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What is the name of the hard, abundant igneous rock used in monuments called? |
Granite |
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What is used to make bricks? |
Shale |
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What is the largest fish? |
Whale Shark |
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What is the largest animal? |
Blue Whale |
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What is the warmest ocean? |
Indian |
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What is the largest ocean? |
Pacific |
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How do marine animals breathe? |
with their lungs |
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Planets in order from the sun |
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune |
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What is sea slope? |
lies between the shelf and the floor |
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What is sea shelf? |
located on the edge of the continent and area of underwater land |
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What is the floor? |
bottom of the ocean |
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1st day of creation |
light and dark (firmament) |
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2nd day of creation |
Water |
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3rd day of creation |
dry lands and plants |
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4th day of creation |
Sun, moon, stars |
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5th day of creation |
birds and fish |
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6th day of creation |
animal and man |
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7th day of creation |
God rested |
