THE SOLAR SYSTEM

1. What does the Sun’s gravitational pull determine?

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2. What is the Sun a source of?

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3. What depends the Earth’s Surface is heated on?

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4. What are the movement the Earth describes? Explain them.

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5. How is the length of days and nights on the differet parts of the Earth?

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6. What is the main reason behind the seasons?

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7. What are the equinoxes?

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8. What are the solstices?

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9. How many climatic zones are there on our planet?

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10. What are the notable parallels?

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11. Label the parallels and the climatic zones.

12. What is a satellite? What i our satellite?

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13. What are the theories about the origin of the moon?
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14. What are the movements described by the moon?

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15. What are the moon phases called? Write the moon phases.

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16. What are eclipses? Which types are there?

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17. What is a solar eclipse? How can solar eclipses be classified?

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18. What is a lunar eclipse? How can lunar eclipses be classified?

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19. What are tides?

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20. What are the types of tidal cycles? Explain them.

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