Solar System 1
The sun is this type of object.
What is a star?
This is your home planet.
What is Earth?
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
This is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This planet is the smallest.
What is Mercury?
These are 2 types of energy the sun produces.
What is light and heat?
Name 2 things about the Earth.
- Life
- Water
- Warm
- Blue
It keeps planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
This is the farthest planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
Name 2 things all planets in our solar system have in common.
Orbit the sun
They are in the solar system
Rotates
This is how long it takes the Earth to make 1 complete revolution around the Sun.
What is 365 days (1 year)?
This means to spin around on an axis.
What is rotation?
It is known as the Earth's Satellite.
What is the Moon?
True or false
The farther the planet is from the Sun the colder it is.
True
Name 3 things all outer planet have in common.
Larger in size, 10 more more moons, made of gas, have rings
True or False
The Earth is made up of 50% water.
False
This causes day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
This is what the planets closest to the Sun are made out of.
What is rock/magma?
This is what all of the planets orbit or "go around".
What is the Sun?
How long is one complete rotation on earth?
1 day
This is why we see the moon.
What is the sun's light reflecting on it?
These are the four planets closest to the Sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
Name the 4 outer planets(gas giants).
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is what orbit means.
What is to go around something in a circle?
What are comets made of?
Dust, ice and small rocky particles