Planets
Names of the planets in the solar system
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The star at the cennter of the solar system
A rocky, terrestrial planet that is the third from the sun
What is Earth?
An object's spinning motion about it's own axis
What is rotation?
The four planets that are farthest away from the sun
What is an outer planet?
Huge, glowing balls of gases
What is a star?
Cold desert planet. Half the size of Earth and is called the Red Planet. 4th planet from the sun
A path or way something goes around an object in space
What is an orbit?
The four planets that are closest to the sun.
What is an inner planet?
A large natural object that travels around the Earth
What is the moon?
The biggest planet in our solar system. Gas giant and doesn't have a solid surface. 5th planet from the sun
What is Jupiter?
Representations of the solar system that are used as tools for understanding
What is a model?
A celestial body that orbits arround the sun, has sufficient mass for its gravity to make it into a round shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
What is a planet?
Something that consists of the Sun and everything that orbits the sun
What is the Solar System?
What is Neptune?
Energy produced when a rise in temperature causes atoms and molecules to move faster and collide with each other.
What is thermal energy?