Movement
The Earth's orbit around the sun lasts this long.
What is one year (or 365 1/4 days)?
How many planets are in our solar system?
What is eight?
Without this, the Earth would not experience seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
This is a frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the Sun.
What is a comet?
This force keeps the planets and moons in their orbits.
What is gravity?
How long does it take the Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis?
What is one day or 24 hours?
Name the four inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
When part of the Earth is tilted closer to the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is summer?
This rocky object is larger than most other types of space debris, and revolves around the sun.
What is an asteroid?
Earth and the other planets closest to the sun are made mostly of ________.
What is rock?
The effect of the Earth rotating on its axis.
What causes day and night?
Name the four outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
When part of the Earth is tilted away from the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is winter?
This rocky object is smaller than an asteroid.
What is a meteoroid?
This is the main reason why the outer planets are referred to as gas giants.
What is we can only see their atmospheres?
What is the scientific word for Earth's orbit around the sun?
What is "revolution"?
What do we call a large round object that revolves around the sun, but has not cleared the region around it's orbit
What is a dwarf planet?
If the northern hemisphere is experiencing winter, the southern hemisphere is experiencing this season.
What is summer?
This is a piece of a meteor that lands on Earth.
What is a meteorite?
Give three characteristics of the outer planets.
Need 3 of the four listed:
What are all have rings, all are made of gas, all have many moons and all have longer orbits?
The two seasons of Earth where the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward or away from the sun.
What are the seasons of fall and winter?
Name the order of the planets in our solar system in relationship to their distance from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Mrs. Karalic will show you a picture. Correctly name the season at point X and tell me why you think it is that season.
What is winter? We know this because the Earth's axis is tilted at 23.5 degrees and away from the sun.
This is the galaxy in which our solar system resides.
What is the Milky Way?
Stars close to Earth include the sun, Alpha Centauri, and Barnard's star. How is the sun different from Alpha Centauri and Barnard's star?
What is the sun is located in our solar system?