Planet Order
The first planet in the solar system
What is Mercury?
The distance from the Earth to the sun.
What is an astronomical unit (150,000,000 km)?
The number of tides that occur each day.
What are 2 high tides and 2 low tides?
How do you write the following number in scientific notation:
The Earth orbits the sun at approximately 108,000 km/hr.
What is 108 x 105 ?
There are ______ full planets currently known in our solar system.
What is 8?
Earth is the ___________ planet from the sun.
What is the 3rd?
The time it takes the Earth to rotate on its axis.
What is period of rotation?
Higher high tides and lower low tides are called __________________ tides and occur during the full moon and new moon.
What are spring tides?
How do you write the following number in scientific notation:
Pluto is 3,700,000, 000 km from the sun.
What is 3.7 x 109?
The planet that is most similar in size to Earth.
What is Venus?
The planet that comes after Mars in the orbital order from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
The time it takes Earth to orbit the sun.
What is period of revolution?
When the moon is between the Earth and the sun and its shadow is cast on the Earth it is a _____________ eclipse.
What is solar?
How do you write the following number in scientific notation:
There are approximately 7,600,000,000 people on Earth.
What is 7.6 x 109?
The gas giant planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune?
The 7th planet is also know for being tilted nearly 90 degrees on its axis.
What is Uranus?
The smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
When the Earth is between the sun and the moon and the Earth's shadow is cast on the moon it is a ____________________ eclipse.
What is lunar?
One astronomical unit is 150,000,000 km. Write this number in scientific notation.
What is 1.5 x 108?
The name of the galaxy our solar system is in.
What is the Milky Way?
The 2nd planet from the sun.
What is Venus?
The planets with no moons.
What are Mercury & Venus?
When the moonlight appears to grow.
What is waxing?
Scientists use the form of notation to write very large numbers and very small numbers so that they are easier to see and comprehend.
What is scientific notation?
This protects the Earth from solar wind.
What is a magnetic field?