Earth
Stars
Planets
Vocabulary
Etc.
100
We seldom notice the other planets in our night sky
What is because the planets are so far away and look like distant stars
100
When you look up in the sky and see a bright star, but later it seems to have moved or disappeared...
What is because Earth rotates, so the stars seem to move?
100
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars...
What is the inner planets?
100
One orbit of an object in space around another object; such as the moon around Earth...
What is a revolution?
100
This tool is used to magnify small objects...
What is a microscope?
200
It takes Earth 24 hours or one day...
What is rotate?
200
A picture or pattern formed by stars...
What is a constellation?
200
The largest planet in the Solar System...
What is Jupiter?
200
An imaginary line passing through the center of a planet that the object spins around...
What is an axis?
200
This tool is used to see objects that are far away...
What is a telescope?
300
It takes Earth 365 days or 1 year...
What is to revolve/make a revolution?
300
A group of millions of stars. Earth is part of the Milky Way...
What is galaxy?
300
These planets are made up of mostly gas...
What are the outer planets?
300
All the objects that exist in space, including our galaxy...
What is the universe?
300
This creates day and night on the Earth...
What is a rotation of Earth on its axis?
400
The "path" that Earth takes as it revolves around the Sun...
What is an orbit?
400
Stars are different from planets because...
What is they produce their own heat and light, they form constellations, and there are millions of more stars than planets?
400
This planet is the 3rd one from the Sun...
What is Earth?
400
A large body that revolves around the Sun in our Solar System...
What is a planet?
400
The planets seem to produce light because...
What is they reflect light from the Sun?
500
Earth is unique from all the other planets because it has large amounts of ...
What is oxygen and water?
500
Huge objects in space made up of gas and giving off light and heat from nuclear reactions; the Sun is one...
What is a star?
500
These planets are made of rocky material and have craters...
What are the inner planets?
500
This special instrument can be sent to any planet to find materials and record other data...
What is a space probe?
500
In spring, the number of hours of daylight and night are about the same. From sunrise to sunset Earth has..
What is completed half of one rotation?
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