Earth's Rotation
This 365.25-day journey of Earth around the Sun defines our calendar year.
What is revolution?
Earth's axis is tilted at a specific angle relative to its orbital plane.
What is 23.5 degrees?
This is the closets planet to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
The largest planet in the Solar System is
What is Jupiter?
This vast, debris-filled region of space separates the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
The rotation of Earth on its axis takes place approximately 24 hours and causes this
What is day and night?
Occurring in June and December, these events mark the days when the Sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon.
What are solstices?
The third planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
Saturn is famous for these features made of ice and rocky dust that actually encircle all four outer planets.
What are planetary rings?
Most planets revolve around the Sun in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
This model states that the Earth is the center of the solar system.
What is Geocentric?
Meaning "equal night," equinoxes occur twice a year when the Sun shines directly over_________.
What is the Earth's equator?
The hottest planet in the Solar System,
What is Venus?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are collectively known by this six-letter physical description.
What are the gas giants?
This planet has the most moons in the Solar System.
What is Saturn?
Earth travels fastest in its orbit during this specific month, when it is closest to the Sun.
What is January?
When the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing winter, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing this season.
What is summer?
Collectively known as the terrestrial planets, these four worlds are primarily composed of rock and metal.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
A six-letter term used to describe planets known as the gas giants
What is Jovian?
These cosmic "dirty snowballs" develop a glowing coma and a tail that always points away from the Sun as they melt.
What are comets?
These are the two main gases that make up the Earth's atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen?
This results from the Earth's changing position with regard to the Sun.
What are Seasons?
These two planets have similar compositions, with dense metallic cores and rocky mantles
What are Venus and Earth?
This violent, centuries-old anticyclonic storm on Jupiter is larger than the diameter of Earth.
What is the Great Red Spot?
Name any three elements that make up the human body and are believed to have been created in stars
What is hydrogen, oxygen, iron, or carbon?