How Earth Moves
The center of our solar system
What is the sun?
There are this many stars in our solar system
What is one?
These are the inner planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
These are the outer planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
The asteroid belt is here
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
The motion that causes day to night.
What is rotation?
The sun is this size.
What is medium, or average, size?
The surface of the inner planets
What is rocky?
The outer planets are also known as these
What are gas giants?
Meteors can look like these in the night sky
What are shooting stars?
One full rotation of Earth is ____
What is a day? or What is 24 hours?
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a constellation?
The hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
The coldest planet
What is Uranus?
This happens to most meteors before they hit Earth's surface.
What is burn up in the atmosphere?
It takes Earth 365.25 days to complete one of these.
What is a revolution?
Two stars are the same size and temperature, but one appears brighter in the night sky. What is the MOST likely reason?
What is the brighter star is closer to Earth?
The planet that has little-to-no atmosphere
What is Mercury?
The planet that rotates on its side
What is Uranus?
A comet is ___
What is a frozen mass of different types of ice and dust?
This keeps Earth in its orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
It produces its own light and energy
What is a star?
One of the brightest objects in the night sky.
What is Venus?
Outer planets are made of ___
What is mostly of gases?
Pluto is a dwarf planet because___
What is it has not cleared the region around its orbit?