The planets
The Solar System
Gravity
Seasons
Tides
100
Collection of large and small bodies that orbit our central star, the sun
What is the Solar system
100
Elipses
What is the shape planets orbit in
100
Force of attraction between objects
What is gravity
100
Spinning of a body
What is a rotation
100
Daily changes in the level of ocean water
What is a tide
200
A spherical body that orbits the sun
What is a planet
200
The Sun!
What is the star that our solar system revolves around?
200
365 days
What is a year
200
pulls on the oceans on the side of each its facing
What is the moons gravity
300
Mercury
What is the closest planet to the sun
300
A moon
What is an object orbiting a planet
300
The path a body follows as it travels another body in space
What is an orbit
300
a pattern of temperatures and other weather trends.
What is a season
300
Bulges in the ocean
What is a high tide
400
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is the order of the planets
400
A giant cloud of gas and dust
What is a solar nebula?
400
The inward force that causes an object to move in a circular path
What is centripetal force
400
when sun shines equally on both hemispheres
What is an Equinox
400
Below average sea levels are called...
What is a low tide
500
A planet made from dust and gasses. Not rocky
What is a gas planet
500
formed as the nebula began to rotate and flatten out.
What is a protostellar disk
500
Discovered that the motions of the planets could be explained if they orbited the Sun
What is German mathematician, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
500
when the are of sunlight reaches a max in one hemisphere and a minimal in another
What is a solstice
500
How long it takes for one place on Earth to face the Moon again
What is 24 hours and 50 minutes
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