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 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
If you walk outside and see a Third Quarter Moon, what will you see in 3 weeks?
New Moon
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 day 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?
This causes seasons.
What is the Earth's revolution around the sun?
True or false
The farther the planet is from the Sun the colder it is.
True
Name 3 things all outer planets have in common.
Larger in size, more moons, made of gas, may have rings
True or False
There are 4 phases of the moon.
True
This causes day and night.
The 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
What are two reasons we see different phases of the moon?
The earth's rotation and the sun reflecting on the moon.
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 is the difference between an asteroid and a comet?
asteroids float around in space, and comets fall to Earth with a tail