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Name: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________ Period: ___
Bill Nye: The Moon
1. The Earth moves around the _____________ and the moon moves around the ________________.
2. The moon looks different to us on earth because of the way the __________ hits it. Moonlight is really
_________________.
3. During a new moon, the moon is between you and the ______________. During a new moon, you can’t
________ the moon.
4. During a half moon, sunlight is falling on ______________ of the moon.
5. During a full moon, earth is between the sun and the ___________________.
6. Moon glow is really ________________________.
7. The moon does not have as much _______________________ as the earth.
8. Where did the moon come from? One theory claims that ________________ was hit by an asteroid and
a piece of ________________ flung off. The pull of gravity held it in ______________ around the
earth.
9. The _________________ of the moon pulls on everything on earth.
10. The moons gravity pulls on earth’s ___________________, which is the main reason we have
____________________.
11. A _________________________ is when the shadow of the moon falls on the earth.
12. A _________________________ is when the shadow of the earth falls on the moon.
13. Why don’t get an eclipse every month? Its all because the moons orbit has a little
___________________.
14. An eclipse is whenever ____________________ is blocked.
15. The gravity on the moon is _____________________ of the gravity on earth.
16. The moon looks different because of its ___________________________.
17. The moon does not have an _______________________________. It does not have oceans, plants or
wildlife. BUT the moon does have moon ___________________.
18. What is the difference between a full moon and a new moon?
19. I still have questions about:
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20. The most interesting thing I learned during this video is:
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Name: __________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Period: ___
Bill Nye: Earth’s Seasons
1. When it is spring in Paris, it is ___________________________________________ in Australia.
2. The reason we have seasons on earth is because the earth is
_____________________________________________.
3. Not only is the earth going around the sun, but earth is also
_____________________________________________.
4. When you are on the part of the earth that is facing towards the sun, it is
___________________________________.
5. When you are on the part of the earth that is away from the sun, it is
______________________________________.
6. When the part of the earth that you are on is tilted towards the sun, it is
___________________________, and the other part of the earth that is tilted away from the sun is in
___________________________________.
7. This is all because the earth’s axis is __________________. That’s the reason for the
________________________!
8. The northern half of the earth is called the ________________________________. The southern part of
the earth is called the __________________________________.
9. During summer, the earth is receiving more
________________________________________________________________.
10. In consider the following we learn about a French scientist named Foucault. What did Foucault
discover? __________________________________________________________________ How did
he prove this discovery?
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________________.
11. The earth ________________________ is the reason the sun rises and set, the reason that the moon rises
and sets, and the reason for all kinds of weather.
12. The earth takes ___________________ to move around the sun.
13. In four seasons, there are ____________ moon cycles.
14. The earth is spinning around an imaginary line we call earth’s ___________________________.
15. The tilted axis makes different parts of the earth be tilted ________________________ or
____________________ from the sun at different times of the year.
16. It only takes ___________________ for the earth to turn itself in one complete rotation. It is traveling
at ________________ miles an hour!
17. What is a solstice?
____________________________________________________________________________________
18. In the southern hemisphere, the longest day is December ____________. In the northern hemisphere, it
is around June __________.
19. What is an Equinox?
___________________________________________________________________________________.
20. The most interesting thing I learned during this video is:
___________________________________________________________________________________.
Name: ______________________________________________ Date: ______________________ Period: ___
Bill Nye: Outer Space
1. People learn about outer space by looking up into the sky and saying ____________________________!
2. Outer space is so big! Everything is so far away. By looking at the _____________________________ we
learn
about outer space.
3. Things in space are very _________________________.
4. What is the fastest thing in the Universe?
_____________________________________________________________.
5. How fast is the fastest thing in the Universe? __________________.
6. Things in the universe are so far apart that it can take _______________________________ of years to get
from one
place to another. Even at the ____________________________!
7. How far away is the closest star to our Sun? ___________________.
8. What is a light year?
______________________________________________________________________________.
9. That means that some of the stars we see right now, may not even __________________ anymore!
10. What is the great red spot on Jupiter?
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
11. What is a constellation?
_________________________________________________________________________________________.
12. You couldn’t get to the nearest star if you traveled your entire __________________________.
13. List the name of 2 constellations. ___________________________ and __________________________.
14. What is another name for the North Star? ______________________________________.
15. In 12,000 years, at which star will the North pole point? ________________________________________.
15. How many meteorites hit Earth each day? ___________
16. What is the circumference of the Earth, according to Bill Nye? ____________.
17. The most interesting thing I learned in this video is:
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18. Another interesting thing I learned in this video is:
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Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________ Period: ______
Bill Nye: The Sun
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Our sun is a ____________________.
This video is brought you to you by, the closest ___________________ to our planet earth. The Sun!
How many earths would fit inside the sun? ______
The Sun only looks small because it is ___________________________.
It would take _________ earths from end to end to equal the suns diameter.
At it core, the sun is about ______________ degrees Celsius. That’s hot!
ALL of our ______________ comes from the Sun.
Solar cells collect ______________________. Solar panels move as the sun
_____________________________.
9. Photovoltaic cells make _______________________ from ________________________.
10. What is a solar oven?
___________________________________________________________________________________.
11. A solar flare is _______________ degrees Celsius.
12. Sun screen protects you from the dangerous, ________________________ rays from the Sun.
13. A solar eclipse is when the moon casts a ______________________ on the earth.
14. The sun is the source of __________________________ for __________________________________.
15. The sun gets it energy from continuous _________________________.
16. Sunspots are slightly ________________________ places on the sun.
17. Sunspots occur in ______________________, about every __________ years.
18. The Sun is a huge ball of ____________.
19. A sunspot is about the size of the __________________, which helps you understand just how big the
sun is.
20. My favorite part of the movie was when
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