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Day and Night
Word Box
Sun
Daytime
Nighttime
Rotates
24 hours
axis
Use the words from the box above to finish the paragraph. Reread
the paragraph to make sure it makes sense.
The
is the center of the Solar System. It
gives the Earth light, heat, and energy. The Earth spins or
on its
, an
imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It
takes the Earth
or one day to make one
complete turn. We do not feel the Earth moving because it moves so
quickly and so smoothly. The Earth’s movement causes day and
night. The sun seems to move across the sky during the day. It
is really the Earth’s spinning that causes this to happen.
When the sun shines on one side of the Earth it is
and the opposite side of the Earth is having
. In an average day we get about 12
hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
Illustrate what causes day and night. Make sure you label your
picture with vocabulary from the word box.