Answer the following questions:

1. How does the Earth rotate, and how does that relate to day and night or the seasons?

2. How does the Earth revolve, and how does that relate to day and night or the seasons?

3. What causes the seasons? Is it the tilt of the Earth’s axis or its changing distance from the Sun throughout the year?

4. What is gravity, and how much weaker does it gets as you get farther from the center of a body?

5. Are objects in orbit of the Earth still under the influence of gravity?

6. An object in orbit falls around the Earth. What do planets, comets, and asteroids fall around?