Planets
Stars
Moon
Vocabulary
General
100
planet furthest from the Sun
What is Neptune?
100
It is directly above the North Pole.
What is Polaris?
100
the direction the moon revolves around the Earth
What is counterclockwise?
100
an imaginary line between the North and South Poles around which the Earth turns
What is the axis?
100
the center of our Solar System
What is the Sun?
200
planet whose surface is mostly covered with water
What is Earth?
200
an asterism in Ursa Major
What is the Big Dipper?
200
the amount of time it takes to make one revolution around the Earth
What is about 28 days?
200
location or relative position to the points of the compass
What is orientation?
200
It is 93 million miles away from the Sun.
What is Earth?
300
the first of the outer planets with a huge red spot
What is Jupiter?
300
appears in the sky like a stretched out M or W
What is Cassiopeia?
300
causes only one side of the moon to be seen on Earth
What is the moon has the same rotation and revolution time - 28 days?
300
a body spinning on its axis
What is rotation?
300
causes day and night
What is rotation?
400
the sixth planet from the Sun made up mostly of gases
What is Saturn?
400
points to Polaris
What is the Little Dipper?
400
causes the moon to be seen day as well as night
What is the Sun?
400
a body circling around another object
What is revolution?
400
produce their own heat and light
What are stars?
500
the smallest planet in the Solar System
What is Mercury?
500
pictures that are made up of stars
What are constellations?
500
causes the moon to appear as different shapes throughout the month
What is the moon's revolution around the Earth and how much of the lighted half we can see at a particular time?
500
a curved path that a body follows when revolving around another body
What is orbit?
500
causes constellations to appear to move across the sky
What is revolution?
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