Sun
The sun is this type of object.
What is a star?
This is the only planet that has life.
What is Earth?
What keeps in orbit around the sun?
What is gravity?
This is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
Name 3 things all inner planets have in common
-Made of rock
- 2 or less moons.
- no rings
- Smaller in size
when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, it is called a ?
Solar eclipse
This planet is the smallest and closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
The moon phase where the right half is illuminated
first quarter
Name 2 things all planets in our solar system have in common (don’t day they are in the solar system).
Orbit the sun?
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
The planet furthest from the sun
neptune
This causes day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
This is what the inner planets are made out of.
What is rock?
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 how we see the moon.
What is the sun's light reflecting on it?
This is the fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
Name the 4 outer planets(gas giants).
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
These are the tides that are the highest highs and lowest lows
spring tides
What are comets made of?
Dust, ice and small rocky particles