Solar System
A force that holds all things together.
What is gravity?
The closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The Moon is this type of object that travels around Earth.
What is a natural satellite?
This is the star at the center of our solar system. It gives Earth light and heat.
What is the Sun?
A design or natural order that happens over and over again.
What is a pattern?
The third planet from the sun. It has water and an atmosphere.
What is Earth?
The Moon appears bright in our sky because it reflects this.
What is sunlight?
A group of stars that forms a pattern or picture in the night sky is called this.
What is a constellation?
An imaginary line that runs through the center of a planet from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is an axis?
The fourth planet from the Sun. It is red, most explored, and covered in dust.
What is Mars?
The different shapes of the Moon that we see from Earth are called these.
What are phases?
This person studies stars, planets, and other objects in space.
What is an astronomer?
The Earth revolves around the Sun and takes about 365 days and makes one year.
What is the definition of revolve?
The farthest planet from the sun. It is cold and covered in gas.
What is Neptune?
The Moon’s gravity helps cause these regular rises and falls of ocean water.
What are tides?
Astronomers use this tool to see objects in space that are very far away.
What is a telescope?
Earth rotates on its axis and it this takes about 24 hours and causes day and night.
What is the definition of rotate?
A star, extremely hot, center of the universe, provides us light and heat.
What is the sun?
This is the name we give to the Moon when the side facing Earth is completely illuminated.
What is a full moon?
This person is trained to travel into space and explore beyond Earth.
What is an astronaut?