Meet the Planets
This red planet is fourth from the Sun and is home to the largest volcano in the solar system.
What is Mars?
The Sun looks much brighter and larger than other stars because it is much ________ to Earth.
What is closer?
Earth spinning on its axis causes this daily pattern of light and darkness.
What is day and night?
The curved path that a planet follows as it travels around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
The bending of light
What is refraction?
The largest planet in our solar system, famous for its Great Red Spot storm.
What is Jupiter?
True or False: The Sun is the largest and brightest star in the entire universe.
What is False? (It only looks that way because of distance).
It takes Earth about 365 days (one full year) to complete one of these around the Sun.
What is a revolution (or orbit)?
The natural satellite that orbits Earth every 27 to 29 days.
What is the Moon?
When light bounces off of something
What is reflection?
These four inner planets are rocky and dense, while the four outer planets are made mostly of gas and ice.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars? (Accept: The terrestrial planets)
A giant, glowing ball of hot gas in space that generates its own light and heat.
What is a star?
Earth’s tilted axis as it orbits the Sun creates these four predictable times of year.
What are the seasons?
The force that pulls planets toward the Sun and keeps them from floating away into space.
What is gravity?
When two poles of a magnet come together, it's called
Attraction
Known as the coldest planet in our solar system, this gas giant spins on its side.
What is Uranus?
The galaxy that contains our solar system along with billions of other stars.
What is the Milky Way?
During a single day, a flagpole's shadow changes length and position because of this movement of Earth.
What is rotation?
Small, rocky bodies located mainly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
Where all living things live
What is an ecosystem?
Gravity keeps celestial bodies in the solar system in motion around this massive object.
What is the Sun?
Stars that are much bigger than our Sun look like tiny specks of light in the night sky because of this factor.
What is distance?
Why nighttime constellation patterns change predictably throughout the year instead of staying the exact same every night.
What is Earth revolving around the Sun?
The imaginary line that runs through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole around which Earth rotates.
What is an axis?
Name the four parts in food web
What are producers, consumers, secondary consumers, predators and decomposers?