Vocabulary #1
Vocabulary #2
Planets & Stars
More Stars
Odds and Ends
100
Earth, Jupiter, and Mars for example
What is a planet?
100
A chunk of rock or metal that orbits the Sun
What is asteroid?
100
Hottest planet
What is Venus?
100
A very large group of stars
What is a galaxy?
100
Scientist that used a telescope to discover the Earth revolved around the Sun
Who is Galileo
200
A device to magnify the starts
What is a telescope?
200
A small piece of ice, rock or metal that falls and hits Earth (like the one one that did in Feb 2013 in Russia)
What is a meteorite?
200
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What are Outer planets?
200
True or False - The Sun is a star
What is True? (a medium-sized star)
200
Hundreds, Thousands, Millions or Billions - Number of Stars
What is billions?
300
A picture or pattern outlined by starts (the Big Dipper is an example)
What is a constellation?
300
Ice mixed with bits of rock and dust that moves around the Sun in a long, narrow orbit (Haley is a famous one)
What is a comet?
300
True or False - The Hubble Telescope orbits the Earth
What is True?
300
True or False - Stars move in the night sky
What is False? (Stars may look like they are moving, but remember the Earth is rotating, so that is why it appears that the stars are moving)
300
The Red Planet
What is Mars?
400
Sun, planets, their moons all put together
What is the solar system?
400
A curved piece of glass (in a telescope)
What is lens?
400
True or False - The stars can help with navigation
What is true?
400
True or False - The North Star points South in the winter
What is False? (The North Star also points North)
400
Planet with rings
What is Saturn?
500
Hot, glowing ball of gases
What is a star?
500
A piece of broken-off asteroid or comet
What is a meteor?
500
True or False - Comets, asteroids and meteors are NOT part of the solar system
What is False?
500
True or False - We can see ALL the same constellations ALL year long
What is False? (Because the Earth is rotating on its axis and the Earth is revolving around the Sun, we see different constellations each season.)
500
Pluto, Eris and Ceres, to name a few
What are Dwarf Planets?
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