Vocabulary
Planets
Earth
The Sun
Vocabulary Part 2
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A large, round, object that revolves around a star and has cleared the region around it's orbit.
Planet
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The only planet known to support life.
Earth
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The difference between Earth's rotation around the Sun and it's revolution around the Sun. 
Rotation = 24 hours; Revolution = 365 days
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A burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system
The Sun
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A group of stars that form a pattern
Constellation
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A natural object that revolves around a planet.
Moon
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Known as the Red Planet.
Mars
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This keeps Earth in it's orbit around the sun.
Gravity
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Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury
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A spacecraft that gathers data without a human crew
A space probe
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An imaginary line around which a planet spins.
Axis
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The planet closest to the Sun.
Mercury
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Explain how Earth has seasons.
The tilt on Earth's axis causes the northern or southern hemisphere of the planet to be closer or further away from the Sun. 
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Which planet is furthest away from the Sun?
Neptune
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A rocky mass several hundred kilometers wide that revolves around the Sun
An asteroid 
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One full orbit around another object.
Revoloution
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The Gas Giants
The outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
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How longs does it take for Earth to rotate around the Sun?
24 hours
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What are solar flares?
Eruptions of radiation and heat from the sun's surface.
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A frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the Sun
A comet
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One whole spin of an object around its axis.
Rotation
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There are known as the terrestrial planets (rocky)
The inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
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How long does it take for Earth to revolve around the Sun?
365 days
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The layers of the Sun

The Photosphere, the Chromosphere, and the Corona

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A small piece of rock that has entered Earth's atmosphere and is burning up. 
A meteor, aka a shooting star.
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