Vocabulary
The name given to the path an object follows as it moves around another object.
What is an orbit?
This is how long it takes for the Earth to make one full rotation on its axis.
What is 24 hours, or one day?
This is how long it takes the Earth to make one full revolution around the sun.
What is 365.24 days, or one year
This is the name of the new Martian Rover.
What is Perseverance?
The gravity of this object causes the tides.
What is the moon?
The word that means to move in a circular orbit around another object.
What is revolve?
This is the location of Earth's equator.
What is around the center of the planet.
This is the shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
What is an oval, or an ellipse?
This is the primary mission of the new rover.
What is the search for ancient life on Mars?
This will eventually happen to the moon in billions of years.
What is crash into the Earth?
This is what we call the imaginary line that an object rotates around.
What is an axis?
This is the location of Earth's axis of rotation.
What is the imaginary line running between the north and south poles.
True or False: Mars takes more time to orbit the sun than Earth does.
True. Mars takes 687 days to orbit the sun.
This is where the heat shield for the new rover was built.
Where is FMI in Biddeford?
This is the direction that Earth spins when looking down from the north pole.
What is counterclockwise?
A word that means to spin on an axis.
What is rotate?
True or False: The direction that the Earth's axis of rotation faces changes throughout the year.
False. The Earth's axis of rotation always points in the same direction in space.
True or false: The shape of Earth's orbit is what causes the seasons.
False. The tilt of the Earth's axis is what causes the seasons.
This is the name of the crater where the new rover landed on February 18th, 2021.
What is Jezero crater?
This has a speed of 27 kilometers (17 miles) per second.
What is Earth's revolution around the sun?
This is what we call any object that orbits around another object in space.
What is a satellite?
These are the two factors that influence the speed of Earth's rotation.
What are the early bombardment of objects (this sped it up) and the gravitational pull of the moon (this is slowing it down).
These are 2 things that rotations and revolutions have in common.
What are both involve movement around a central point, both involve the sun, both are constant cyclic motions, and both are used to measure time on Earth. (any 2 correct answers)
This is the name given to the first helicopter planned to fly on another planet.
What is Ingenuity?
This scientist caused a revolution by claiming that the Earth orbits the sun.
Who is Copernicus?