vocab
our sun and all the objects that move around it
Solar System
imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole
earths closest star
sun
name one interesting fact about the sun
plasma, prominence, center of our solar system, sunspots, solar flares, made of large clouds of gas and dust
causes the seasons
tilt of Earth/ Earth's orbiting
becoming gradually larger
waxing
shape of earth's orbit around the sun
elliptical
29 1/2 days to rotate earth, no light of its own, rocks and dust, no air, no water, craters, orbits earth, has phases
imaginary line that circles Earth
dark spots on the sun
sunspots
amount of time it takes earth to rotate once
24 hours
who were the first people to land on the moon
buzz aldrin and neil armstrong
the name for scientists who study objects in outer space
astronomers
what astronauts found when they traveled to the moon
rocks and dust
amount of time it takes the earth to orbit the sun once
365 1/2 days
what was the space craft that first landed on the moon
apollo 11
causes day and night
Earths Rotation
becoming gradually smaller
waning
what does lunar mean
moon
what moon phase of the moon is it when we can't see any of the moon
new moon