Vocabulary
Planets
Space Riddles
5th grade review
Space BONUS
100

A group of stars that forms an image or picture

constellation

100

The closest planet to the sun

 planet Mercury

100

I am the closet star to Earth.

Sun

100

When the earth spins on it's own axis

rotation

100

What is an AXIS?

...

200

A body held together by gravity that is made of millions of stars, gas, and dust

galaxy

200

This planet was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty

Venus

200

I am the object that appears largest in the night sky.

the moon

200

This type of animal eats mostly meat

What is a carnivore?

200
What is the equator?

...

300

The distance that light travels in a year

light year

300

planets with rings (mention at least two)

Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter y Neptune

300

I'm a galaxy and I share a name with a candy bar

"Milky Way"

300

animals that only eat plants

Hervibores

300
What are the earth's satellite?

The moon

400

The force of attraction between any two masses

gravity

400

The planet farthest from the sun (not Pluto).

Neptune

400

I'm called the red planet

Mars

400

This body system's main functions are: support, movement, and protection

skeletal system / bones / skeeleton

400

How seasons are produced?

because of revolution

500

When the earth orbits around the sun


revolution / translation

500

This planet is the only known habitat of snorklewhackers and it has liquid water on its surface


the earth

500

An explanation why something happens or did happen.

It has not been completely proven or accepted as fact.

theory

500

This is the way plants obtain enegery from their leaves

Photosynthesis

500

What rotation is responsible of?

Causes day and night

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