Solar System 1
The sun is this type of object.
What is a star?
This is the only planet that has life.
What is Earth?
What keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?
What is gravity?
This is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
Name 3 things all inner planets have in common
-Made of rock
- 2 or less moons.
- no rings
- Smaller in size
The sun produces these kinds of energy.
What is light and heat?
This planet is the smallest and closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
This is the farthest planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
Name 2 things all planets in our solar system have in common (don’t say they are in the solar system).
Orbit the sun?
Rotates
This is how long it takes the Earth to make 1 complete revolution around the Sun.
What is 365 days (1 year)?
This means to spin around on an axis.
What is rotation?
It is known as the Earth's Satellite.
What is the Moon?
True or false
The farther the planet is from the Sun the colder it is.
True
Name 3 things all outer planet have in common.
Larger in size, 10 more more moons, made of gas, have rings
True or False
The Earth is made up of 70% water.
True
This causes day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
This is what the inner planets are made out of.
What is rock?
This is what all of the planets orbit or "go around".
What is the Sun?
How long is one complete rotation on earth?
1 day
This is how we see the moon.
What is the sun's light reflecting on it?
This is the fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
Name the 4 outer planets(gas giants).
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is what orbit means.
What is to go around something in a circle?
What are comets made of?
Dust, ice and small rocky particles