Characteristics
What characteristic describes a pattern each planet in our solar system shares with the Sun?
Which planet is closest to the Sun?
What is Mercury.
The moon and Earth both ____________ around the sun
Revolve
Name two movements the Earth performs in its relationship with the Sun.
The Earth revolves/orbits around the Sun and rotates on its axis.
How many planets, including Earth, revolve around the sun in Earth’s solar system?
8 planets
It takes about one ____________ for the moon to orbit Earth
Month
Mars is known as the __________ planet.
What is the red planet
Name one advantage and limitation of using a model to study the solar system?
Advantage: learn about orbit patterns in planets, compare the relative sizes of planets to one another
Limitation: planets are not true to size, the distance between the planets are not true to scale
It takes one ____________ for Earth to go around the sun and return to its starting place.
Year
What is Neptune
What are four planets in our solar system that have rings.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
The moon and Earth both also ____________ on their axes
Rotate
The planet after Saturn is?
What is Uranus
A dense planet between Earth and Mercury.
What is Venus.
Scientists discovered that the Earth orbits the sun. How did this discovery affect science?
It gave scientists a better understanding of the solar system.