CHAPTER 8 : Earth and Tyetees f= How do things move in the night sky? Lesson! How does Earth’s motion cause day and night? Lesson 2 How do the seasons change during a year? Lesson 3 How does the night sky change? Lesson 4 How are the planets alike and different?Big Idea Vocabulary axis a center line that an object spins around (page 255) orbit the path Earth takes around the Sun (page 262) phase the Moon's shape as we see it from Earth (pag star an object in space made of hot, glowing gases (poge 272)FUSN, memes SORTA, HRET ROM, ARON. AHN AMANR, AFD anne. aCe, Why can't we see the Sun at night? ) Stand |2 steps away from your partner facing them. ) Point a flashlight at your % flashlight partner. The flashlight is the Sun. Your partner is Earth. ©) Predict. Let your partner turn around slowly in front of the flashlight. Will he or she always be able to see the light? Try it. J Infer. How does this . model show why we can not see the Sun at night? 3) Make a Model. What pattern is made when your partner turns around in front of the flashlight three times? Try it. PEE} TeTT > Essential Question How does Earth’s motion cause day and night? » Vocabulary Earth spins every moment of the day and night. You do not feel it, but it is happening right now. The spinning of Earth is called rotation. Earth’s rotation causes day and night. When one side of Earth faces the Sun, it is day. At the same time, it is night on the other side of Earth. Earth always spins in the same direction. Here the United States is facing the Sun, so it is daytime.Earth rotates around an imaginary line called an axis. The axis goes through the center of Earth from north fo south. Every 24 hours, Earth makes one full turn on its axis. This pattern of day and night repeats again and again. @ Why can we see sunlight only during the day? Is it day or night in the United States? Bm How do you know? RAM, AFRPREM, wes tae ts UT, RP. UR. POUR, ORR TOL ALM, GOAT TIER Why do the Sun and the Moon seem to move? Quick Lab We live on Earth and look Make a flip book up toward the sky. As Earth of the Moon. rotates, the Sun and the Moon Observe how the seem to move across the sky. Moon seems to move across the The Sun makes different sky in one night. shadows during the day. As Earth rotates, shadows on the ground change. Longer shadows mean the Sun is lower in the sky. ¥ The length of the shadows change as the Sun seems to move across the sky. In the morning, the By the middle of the As it gets dark, the Sun seems to rise day, we see the Sun ‘Sun seems to set in in the sky. high in the sky. the sky. 256 EXPLAINEach night the Moon also. Seems to move across the sky. i ) Why does the Sun appear to move in the sky? Il. Problem and Solution. How can you tell what time it is if you do not have a watch? 2. How are day and night different? ¥ 3. Essential Question. How does Earth’s motion cause day and night? Y ¢ Link Write a song about day and night to the tune of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” Review summaries and quizzes online at wow. macmillanmh.com