The Sun
The sun is an average sized
What is star?
The sequence of the moon phases are New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, and
What is Third Quarter?
It takes the Earth this many days to complete one full movement or rotation.
What is 1 day?
One characteristic that all inner planets in our solar system have is that they have relatively large
What are cores?
A group of stars that seems to form a pattern in the night sky
What is constellation?
The sun is made of these gases
What are hydrogen and helium?
The same side of the moon always faces earth because the moons revolution and _____________ are about the same length.
What is rotation?
It is daytime in the United States and nighttime in China because of
What is Earth's rotation?
Mars can be described as having this type of soil.
What is Iron Oxide?
Earth turns around an imaginary line
What is axis?
The sun is this many years old.
What is 4.6 billion?
We can see the moon from Earth because it reflects
What is sunlight?
It is hotter in August and colder in January because of
What is Earth's tilt?
Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet because its ____________ crosses the orbit of another body.
What is orbit?
A star and the planets and other objects that revolve around it make up a
What is solar system?
The sun appears to rise in this direction
What is East?
The moon takes this many days to move through it's phases.
What is 29 1/2 days?
Some constellations are only visible from different places on Earth during part of the year because of this.
What is Earth's revolution?
The 6th planet from the sun
What is Saturn?
When things turn like a top they
What is rotate?
This property of the sun holds the Earth-Moon system in place.
What is gravity?
The moon is a rocky
What is satellite?
The ordinal location of Earth from the sun is
Inner planets have few to no
What are moons?
A change in the appearance of the moon's shape
What is moon phase?