Vocabulary
What does revolution mean?
How many planets are there?
What is eight?
What is the hottest type of star?
What are Blue Hypergiants?
What shape do our planets make when they orbit
What is an Oval?
Who was the first person to say the Earth orbits the sun?
Galileo Galilee
What is the definition of rotation?
When an object spins on its axis. For example, the Earth rotates on its axis. Its rotation creates day & night.
Name all the planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
What are shooting stars?
what are meteors?
What makes the sun so hot?
What are hydrogen and helium?
What is the sun?
What is the definition of gravity?
The force that pulls objects toward each other. For example, the Earth's gravity pulls us toward its center.
What planet is the closest to the sun?
What is Mercury?
What is the most common star?
What are Red Dwarfs?
How many Earths could fit inside of the sun?
What is 1.3 million Earths?
How does the moon get its light?
From the sun.
Gravitational pull is...
On Earth, it's when gravity pulls us toward its center.
What does the moon cause?
Tides
What type of star is the sun?
What are Yellow Dwarfs?
How far away from the Earth is the sun?
What is 93 million miles away?
The shape of the orbit made by the planets is...
An ellipse.
Our galaxy is...
Waning means...
The moon appears to be getting smaller.
What is the coldest type of star?
What are Brown Dwarfs?
How old is the sun?
What is 4.6 billion years old?
Equator