Sun, Earth, & Moon
The Earth's rotation on its axis causes....
What is night and day?
This causes planets to have seasons.
What is tilt?
List the planets in order....
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
A small rocky object that orbits the Sun.
What is an asteroid?
This planet has a thick atmosphere and rotates in an opposite direction than Earth. Temperatures reach over 800 degrees.
What is Venus?
This allows organisms, objects, and water to pulled toward Earth.
What is gravity?
Craters are caused by....
What are asteroids?
Our solar system is located in the _________________ galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
Groups of stars in the sky.
What are constellations?
This is the only habitable planet.
What is Earth?
Our Sun is ___________ miles away from the Earth.
What is 93,000,000?
____________ has icy volcanos on its surface.
What is Pluto?
The sun appears brighter than the other stars because.....
What is ....the sun is the only star in our solar system?
A small mass of dust and ice that orbits the sun.
What is a comet?
There is no atmosphere on this planet. It doesn't have seasons and is about the same size as the Earth's moon.
What is Mercury?
It takes about ______ for the moon to revolve around the Earth.
What is 29 days?
________________ has an environment that is hot enough to melt lead.
What is Venus?
Our solar system has ______ dwarf planets.
What is 5?
All the galaxies together form this.
What is the universe?
This planet is called the Red Planet because iron minerals causing the surface to look red.
What is Mars?
A phase when the moon appears completely illuminated from Earth.
What is a full moon?
________________ # of Earth's could fit in the sun.
What is 1 million?
__________ is a region beyond Neptune where icy bodies reside.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
An imaginary line that runs through the center of an object and around which it rotates.
What is axis?
Massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and has rings. This is the 6th planet from the sun.
What is Saturn?