Earth, Moon & Sun

 Answer the following questions in your Science Notebook.  Create a Cornell note page and label the top of the page Earth, Moon, and Sun, use the interactive website: Sun, Moon and Earth Orbits to answer the questions. Place the question on the Topic side, and the answers in the note side.

What is an orbit?

How many days does it take the earth to orbit the sun?

How many days does it take for the moon to orbit the earth?

What shape are the earth, moon and sun?

Put the earth, moon, and sun in order by size from smallest to largest.

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Read the following article to answer this question: The Moon

Explain why one side of the Moon always faces toward Earth and the other side always                 faces away from Earth.