Space 1
The point where the sky appears to meet the surface of the Earth (land or water)
What is the horizon?
Earth's only natural satellite.
What is the Moon?
The changing shapes of the moon that we see from Earth.
What are the phases of the Moon?
In the early morning, or in the late vening, when the sun's angle is at its lowest. The shadows cast are at their longest or at their shortest?
What is the shadows are at their longest?
The name of Ms. Chambers' cat.
What is Freddie Mercury?
Physical (3-D) or visual (2- D) representations that help us understand complex phenomena in Science. Example: globes
What are models?
To light up
What is to illuminate?
This planet gets its red color from the rust and minerals in its soil, and it is named for the Roman god of war.
What is Mars?
This planet revolves around the sun faster than any other planet, it is named for the Roman god of speed, it is the closest to the Sun, and it is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
This celestial object used to be a planet but since 2006, scientists say that it is too small and its orbit too irregular to be considered on eof our planets. it is now a "dwarf planet".
What is Pluto?
The curved path in which a planet or satellite moves around another body.
What is orbit?
How long it takes for Earth to complete one rotation on its axis?
What is 24 hours?
A group of stars that appears to make a pattern in the sky.
What is a constellation?
A huge, bright ball of hot gas that gives off light.
What is a star?
The position planet Earth is, away from the sun.
What is the 3rd planet from the Sun?
How long it takes for the Earth to complete one orbit around the sun?
What is 365 days?
A dark area that forms when an object blocks light from reaching a surface.
What is shadow?
Something that repeats or happens in a regular, predictable way that scientists can observe.
What is a pattern?
To revolve in a circular or oval path around another object
What is to revolve or to orbit?
The center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
A statement about what you think will happen, based on your observations and what you already know.
What is a prediction?
To turn on an axis.
What is to rotate?
The center of a sphere shaped object, the innermost layer.
What is the core?
The sun is the largest known star. True or False?
What is false?
The sun appears to be the brightest star in the sky because of this.
What is that it is the closest star to Earth
An investigation where we change one thing and keep other important things the same, so we can see what caused the result.
What is a fair test?
This causes night and day on Earth.
Wha tis the Earth's rotation on its axis?
The path an object follows as it moves around another object.
What is its orbit?
One complete trip Earth makes around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
Earth’s spin around an imaginary line through its North and South Poles.
What is a rotation?
The Earth is this distance away from the sun.
What is 93 million miles?
The distance from Earth to the moon.
What is 239,000 miles?
The true amount of light a star gives off.
What is actual brightness?
The names of the planets in order from the Sun. Mnemonic Hint: My Very Excited Mother Just Served Us Nachos
What are 1.Mercury 2.Venus 3.Earth 4.Mars 5.Jupiter 6.Saturn 7.Uranus 8.Neptune?
This planet is the planet that rotates on its axis the fastest, it is the 5th planet from the Sun, it is the largest planet and it is named for the Roman king of the gods.
What is Jupiter?
The 3 variables in a true fair investigation (experiment)
What are independent, dependent adn controlled variables?
When the visible part of the Moon is growing, it is said to be _____________.
What is waxing?
When the visible part of the moon is shrinking, it is said to be ___________.
What is waning?
The force by which all objects in the universe are attracted to each other (on Earth, this force pulls objects to the center of our spherical planet)
What is gravity?
how bright a star looks/appears from Earth. It depends on two things: Luminosity: how much light the star actually gives off. Distance: how far away the star is from us.
What is apparent brightness?