Solar System
What type of celestial body is the Sun?
Star
What is it called when a plant makes its own food?
Photosynthesis
What is the largest planet in our Solar System?
Jupiter
Light bouncing off an object.
Reflection
What is the phase called when the Moon is getting smaller in the sky when we are looking at it?
Waning
An organism that makes its own food.
Producer
What are the two types of forces?
Push and Pull
The path one object takes around another object in space.
Orbit
Light bending
Refraction
What is the hottest planet in our Solar System?
Venus
An organism changing a part of its body to survive.
Adaptation
What is the difference between weight and mass?
Weight is how much gravity pulls something down, mass is how many atoms are in something.
What is the scientific term for Earth travelling around the Sun?
Revolution
Materials that do not let light pass through them.
What are the four gas giants?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
A network of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Various answers (pounds, grams, liters, etc.)
What planet does not have an atmosphere?
Mercury
Describe what happens during light diffraction.
Light spreads out around obstacles or openings.
The four terrestrial planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
Describe one type of symbiosis
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism
A force that slows or stops motion and acts between 2 objects that are touching.
Friction
Explain one reason why Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet.
1. It is not large enough to have its own gravitational pull.
2. Other dwarf planets are too close to it, and we did not want them in the Solar System too.
3. It does not orbit the Sun in the same way as the other planets.
Fill in the blank: light is part of the _______ spectrum.
Electromagnetic