Vocabulary
our planet, the only planet with life.
What is Earth?
Large ball-shaped objects that move around the sun.
What are planets?
What is Mercury?
This is the fifth planet from the sun.
What is 8?
Our star, the center of our Solar System. All of the planets move around it.
What is the Sun?
This planet is the second planet from the sun.
What is Venus?
What is Saturn?
The Sun is a star.
True or False
What is true?
The system that includes the sun, planets, and other objects such as moons, asteroids, and comets.
What is the Solar System?
The oval shape of the planet's orbit or path.
What is ellipse?
The closer a planet is to the sun, the larger its orbit or path around the sun.
True or False
False
This planet is tipped on it's side.
What is Uranus?
This is how long it takes Earth to revolve around the sun.
What is 1 year?
The imaginary path that the planets travel on.
What is orbit?
Largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
It takes the Earth 1 day or _______ hours to rotate one time.
What is the farthest planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
All planets spin on their axis. This is called___
What is rotating?
To spin; planets spin as they _____ around the sun.
What is rotate?
This planet has the coldest atmosphere.
What is Neptune?
We have this many solid, rocky inner planets.
What is 4?
What is gas?
The sun is made up of two gases.
What is helium and hydrogen?