Day & Night
In the day time, I can see this in the sky.
What is the sun?
The sun is the closest one of these to the earth.
What is a star?
If the sun were a basketball, the earth would be approximately this big.
What is a pea or small pebble?
The different shapes of the moon are called this.
What are the phases of the moon?
Enormous balls of gas that burn so bright they give off light.
What are stars?
I can see the moon during this time.
What is the night and sometimes during the day?
Round objects in the sky made of rock or gas that orbit the sun.
What are planets?
All planets orbit the sun due to this force.
What is gravity?
The moon's trip around the earth takes about this long.
What is about a month or 29 days?
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a constellation?
Day and night occur in this.
What is a cycle or pattern?
Made up of the sun, planets, moons, and other objects orbiting the sun.
What is the solar system?
The reason the sun looks bigger than all other stars.
What is the sun is the closest star to the earth?
The largest amount of the moon shone in the sky at one time.
What is a full moon?
What is the Milky Way?
This is what makes it so I can see things during the day.
What is light from the sun?
This means to circle around.
What is orbit?
The hottest part of the sun.
What is the core?
When we don't see any moon in the sky.
What is a new moon?
What is the North Star?
The moon shines in the sky because of this.
What is the light reflected from the sun?
Small bits of dust, ice or frozen gas that may have a tail.
What is a comet?
The sun would look like this if you saw it close up.
What is a large burning flame?
A thin slither of the moon in the sky.
Stars do not move, but appear in different places in the sky because of this.
What is the earth's rotation?