Planets
Mercury
A planet that is rocky/made out of rocks
terrestrial
Closest dwarf planet
Pluto
Largest planet in the solar system
Jupiter
To move in a circular or near circular path around something else
revolve
Farthest planet from the sun
Neptune
List the planets in order from the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Polish astronomer who said the planets revolve around the sun in circular orbits.
(Ptolemy, Aristotle, Copernicus, or Galileo)
Copernicus
Gas giant but considered an ice giant, small rings, appears to be blue in color.
Neptune
To spin around
Fourth planet from the sun, called the red planet
Mars
Third planet from the sun
Earth
Fifth planet from the sun with the great Red Spot
Juipter
Gas giant with rings, appears to spin on it's side
Uranus
The real or imaginary line that a spinning object turns around on
axis
A large planet that is made primarily of gases
gas giant
Planet similar in size and mass to Earth
Venus
Greek astronomers who believed Earth was placed at the center of the universe.
(Ptolemy, Aristotle, Copernicus, or Galileo)
Ptolemy & Aristotle
Smallest planet in the solar system
Mars
The path the earth travels around the sun
orbit
Sixth planet, largest set of rings
Saturn
Burning ball of gas, center of our universe
the sun
Italian astronomer who used his telescope to prove the Sun was at the center of the universe.
(Ptolemy, Aristotle, Copernicus, or Galileo)
Galileo
List the planets in order from largest to smallest
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars
A scientist who studies all of the objects outside of Earth’s atmosphere like the Sun, Moon, stars and other planets.
astronomer