Vocabulary
A group of stars that forms a star picture
What is a constellation?
This planet has the most rings.
What is Saturn?
This is how many million miles the earth is from the sun.
What is 93,000,000
What is the season when the sun hits our part of the Earth most directly.
What is summer?
Which planets have no moons?
What is Mercury and Venus?
If you flew to the moon, what would you leave there?
What is...anything goes!
What is the word for when the earth spins and we see day and night?
What is rotation?
This is the hottest planet.
What is Venus?
If it takes 3 months to get to Mars and each month is 31 days long, how many days will it take to get to Mars?
What is the 93?
What is the word for how long it takes the earth to orbit the sun and about how many days does it take?
What is a year, and 365 days?
True or False: Neil Armstrong was the first person to step on the moon.
What is true.
Besides Laika the dog, name three other animals that went to space?
What are a monkey, rabbit, rat, frog, turtle?
Large holes found on the moon, the earth, Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
What are craters?
The largest planet that has a Giant Red Spot and is fifth from to the sun.
What is Jupiter?
Jupiter rotates at about 28,273 miles an hour. The fastest spinning planet. Write this number is expanded notation.
20,000+8,000+200+70 +3
In which galaxy do we find the earth?
What is the Milky Way?
The moon phase when you can't see the moon at all. (Hint: before waxing crescent)
What is the new moon?
When we see a shooting star, what are we really looking at?
What is the word that means the path a planet travels around the sun?
What is an orbit?
This planet is named after the Roman God of war?
What is Mars?
If it takes 1,000 hours to fly to a planet and we have traveled 550 hours. How many more hours do we have to fly?
How much is 450?
What are the seven continents on earth?
What are North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asis, Australia, Antarctica ?
What is a solar eclipse?
Why do they save the Urine (pee) on the International Space Station
What is- they recycle it, clean it, and reuse it?
What is a light year?
What is the distance light travels in a year?
This planet is named after the Roman God of the sea.
What is Neptune?
The third graders raised money to buy a real meteorite for the class. It costs $100. We raised $76.00. How much more do we need to raise?
What is $24.00?
Give at least 3 reasons why Earth is the only planet (that we know) that has life?
What is the the perfect distance from the sun, breathable air, liquid water, just the right temperature?
This is how many days it takes for the moon to do a full rotation, and complete all 8 phases.
What is 29 days?
What are the names of the two belts in our Solar System?
What is the asteroid belt and Kuiper Belt?