Rotation
How long is one rotation of the Earth?
24 hours
How long does Earth's revolution take?
365 days
Earths ____ makes it move away from the sun?
Inertia
List the rocky planets
Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury
What is the mnemonic used to memorize the order of the planets?
My very eager mother just served us noodles
The Earth's rotation gives us?
Day and night
The Earth's revolution give us ?
The seasons
Gravity and Inertia produce Earth's ___?
Orbit
List the gas giants?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Ms. Breanna
A sphere of hot gases that produces its own energy is?
A star
Solstice
(Name the 2 for extra points)
An Orbit is?
The path that an object travels around a larger object
The largest planet is?
Jupiter
The force of attraction, or pull, between two objects
Gravity
Includes the sun and all the objects that orbit around it?
The solar system
Each point in Earth's orbit at which the hours of daylight and darkness are equal is an?
Equinox
(Name the 2 for extra credit)
Earth is the ___ planet from the sun?
Third
Name all the planets in order
Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Just, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The tendency of an object to keep moving in a straight line?
Inertia