Sun Vs. Stars
This is the closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
It takes this long for Earth to complete one spin.
24hours, or one day.
This cycle usually tells us when we have to go to work or to sleep.
What is the day/night cycle?
Our planets shadow creates this time of day.
What is nighttime?
Earth pulls everything down towards the ground with the force of _______.
What is Gravity?
_________ are very far away from Earth in every direction.
What are Stars?
As the earth turns away from the sun this beautiful time of day can also be known as golden hour.
What is sunset?
An area that sits between Jupiter and Mars is called this. Ceres is a dwarf planet that lives here.
What is the astroid belt?
The sun is the only star in our ______ _______. Other stars are far outside our ______ _______.
What is a solar system?
What is the Solar System?
We measure the distance to other stars using this phrase.
What is light-years?
The earth spends this same amount of time in both the day and the night.
What is 12 hours?
How long it takes for Earth to complete one orbit around the sun.
What is one year, or 365 days?
It takes this much time for light to travel 93 million Miles from the sun to the earth.
What is eight minutes?
This planet uses its large gravity and size to give shape to the astroid belt.
What is Jupiter?
The sun is the only star we can see in the daytime because the sun does this thing.
What is outshines?
Earth ____ once each day. We face the sun in ____, and we face away from the sun at _____.
What is spin, daytime, and nighttime?
The planet's rotation causes the sun to _____ in the East and ____ in the West.
What is rise and set?
Sunlight changes throughout the year as the sun moves through these four time periods?
What are Seasons/(Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring)?
Because Earth pulls objects straight down toward the ground with gravity, this is the universal definition of "up" anywhere on Earth
What is away from the ground?
A cluster of stars can that can be seen from Earth and creating some kind of shape in the sky.
What is a constellation?
Earth ____ the sun at the same time as it ____.
What are orbits and spins?
Throughout the year, we see different stars. But every year on the ____, we see the ____.
What are the same date, and same stars?
An ________ is a phenomenon when there is a shadow that blocks out some or all of the light for another object.
What is an eclipse?
This space object takes in everything, you would need to travel faster than light to leave it.
What is a Black Hole?