Vocabulary
What does the adjective lunar refer to?
Related to the moon
The sun is what type of celestial object?
A star
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Mercury
When the moon is completely illuminated or bright.
Full Moon
What is the galaxy that the Solar System belongs to that has several hundred billion stars and is spiral-shaped?
Milky Way
True or false: The moon is a planet because it can make an orbit.
False; the moon is a natural satellite
What is the largest planet?
Jupiter
When the moon is completely dark (not illuminated)
New Moon
What is an imaginary line through the center of an object that it rotates around?
Pluto is known as a ___________.
Dwarf Planet
List the planets in order from closest to the sun to furthest from the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is the difference between waxing and waning?
Waxing: increase in size; when the illuminated part of the Moon gets larger each night
Waning: decrease in size; when the illuminated part of the Moon gets smaller each night
An object ________ around it's axis.
rotates
What is a lump of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbits the Sun?
Comet
How many dwarf planets do we have in our Solar system?
5!
Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris
Draw a waxing crescent moon phase.
The phenomenon that occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align, causing the Moon to block light from the Sun and cast a shadow on the Earth
Solar Eclipse
What is the difference between a meteor, meteoroid, and meteorite?
Meteoroid - piece of asteroid or comet in space
Meteor - entered Earth's atmosphere
Meteorite - hit/landed on Earth's surface
Which planet has the most moons?
Saturn with 274 moons!
Draw the moon phase that comes AFTER a full moon and label the phase.
Waning Gibbous