Celestial Bodies
Planets
Seasons
The Way Things Move
Gravity
100
A moon orbits this.
What is a planet?
100
It would be difficult for humans to live on Mars because it does not have this important gas in its atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
100
A solstice occurs during these 2 seasons.
What are summer and winter?
100
1 Earth rotation takes this amount of time.
What is 24 hours or 1 day?
100
Gravity is greatest on this planet.
What is Jupiter?
200
These can be made of rock, ice, or dust.
What is a comet?
200
Earth is just the right distance from the sun that it is the only planet that does this.
Why does Earth support life?
200
When we experience equal amounts of daylight and night, this is occurring.
What is an equinox?
200
This is one complete course traveled around the sun.
What is a revolution?
200
More ______________=More gravity
What is mass?
300
A planet orbits one of these.
What is a star?
300
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
300
This is the reason we have seasons.
What is Earth's axial tilt?
300
One revolution of Earth takes this amount of time.
What is 365 days or 1 year?
300
Mass is constant, but this changes with gravity.
What is weight?
400
This is a bright fixed point of light in the sky.
What is a star?
400
These planets are small, close to the sun, and have rocky surfaces.
What are the inner planets?
400
When Earth's axis is not tilted toward or away from the sun, we experience these 2 seasons.
What are fall and spring?
400
The Earth does this every day.
What is rotate?
400
This is gravity.
What is the force that attracts a body toward the center of the Earth or any other physical body having mass.
500
This is a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
500
These planets are large, made of gas, and are located far from the sun.
What are the gas giants?
500
When the northern hemisphere experiences winter, the southern hemisphere experiences this season.
What is summer?
500
A planet with a day that lasts 4 hours, rotates ___________ compared to Earth.
What is faster?
500
A planet that you can jump high on has ___________ gravity than Earth.
What is less?
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