Planets
Day & Night & Year
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Etc.
100
Gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune?
100
The time it takes a planet to complete one rotation.
What is a day?
100
The force that keeps the planets in their paths around the sun.
What is gravity?
100
The reflection of the sun's light.
What gives planets and moons their daytime light?
100
A shooting star.
What is a meteor?
200
The Milky Way galaxy.
What is the name of our solar system's galaxy?
200
The time it takes a planet to revolve once around the sun.
What is a year?
200
An imaginary line that planets rotate around.
What is the axis?
200
All the gases around a planet.
What is atmosphere?
200
The reasons why we have seasons.
What is: the earth has a tilted axis and it moves around the sun?
300
A star and all the objects that move around it.
What is a solar system?
300
This causes the earth to have a day and a night.
What does the earth's rotation on its axis cause to happen?
300
What the movement of a planet around the sun is called.
What is a revolution?
300
A bowl-shaped hole formed when a space object hits a planet.
What is a crater?
300
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What are mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune.
400
These help us to understand the sizes and distances of planets.
What is a scale model?
400
The planet has a bigger orbit around the sun than the earth.
Why might a year on another planet be longer than a year on the earth?
400
When a planet spins, the movement is called this.
What is a rotation?
400
An object that travels around another object in space.
What is a satellite?
400
A constellation.
What is it called when a group of stars are given a name?
500
Rocky planets.
What are mercury, mars, earth, and venus?
500
Because a planet might rotate faster than the earth.
Why might a day on another planet be shorter than a day on earth?
500
Huge ball of glowing gas that gives off light and heat.
What is a star?
500
Frozen chunk of ice, dust, and gases that revolves around the sun.
What is a comet?
500
tell one thing you learned about our solar system.
What did you learn about the solar system?
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