Vocabulary
The Sun
Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Our Solar System
100
The path around the sun.
What is an orbit?
100
The sun is a major source of _______ for the Earth.
What is energy?
100
This planet is the hottest planet.
What is Venus?
100
This planet's largest moon is Titan.
What is Saturn?
100
These are small rocky objects in space that orbit the sun.
What are asteroids?
200
A ball of rock or gas that orbits a star.
What is a planet?
200
The sun heats the air, and moving air affects our _______.
What is weather?
200
This planet is called the red planet.
What is Mars?
200
This planet is a pale bluish green and spins on its side.
What is Uranus?
200
Most asteroids are found in an area between these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
300
The sun and the objects that orbit it.
What is the solar system?
300
The sun is a ________ - sized star.
What is medium?
300
This planet is 93,000,000 miles from the sun.
What is Earth?
300
This planet spins faster than any other planet and has a huge red spot.
What is Jupiter?
300
These kinds of planets are the size of a large asteroid but are round like a ball.
What are dwarf planets?
400
To spin on an axis
What is rotate?
400
The sun is the ________ object in our solar system.
What is largest?
400
This planet orbits the sun quickly but rotates slowly.
What is Mercury?
400
This planet is blue and has winds that sometimes blow over 994 miles per hour.
What is Neptune?
400
Stars appear to form ______, or patterns in the sky.
What are constellations?
500
A tool that helps us see faraway objects
What is a telescope?
500
The sun has most of the ______ of the entire solar system.
What is mass?
500
This planet has two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
What is Mars?
500
These three outer planets have rings.
What are Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
500
Those who study the stars and planets in God's universe are called ________.
What are astronomers?
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