GALAXIES & THE MILKY WAY
What is the name of the galaxy where Earth is located?
What is the Milky Way?
Name the inner planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars?
What object orbits a planet?
What is a moon?
Is the Sun a planet or a star?
What is a star?
This is the word for a path an object takes as it moves around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
What are galaxy is made of?
What are gas, dust, stars, or objects orbiting stars?
Inner planets are mostly made of what material?
What are rocks (rocky surfaces)?
What are the rocky objects found mostly between Mars and Jupiter called?
What are asteroids belt?
Why does the Sun appear large and bright in Earth’s sky?
Because it is the closest star to Earth.
This is the force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
What type of galaxy is the Milky Way classified as?
What is a spiral galaxy?
Name all four outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
What is the solar system made up of?
The Sun and all the objects that orbit it.
True or False: The Sun looks bright because it is the largest star in the Milky Way. Tell me why
What is false?
An imaginary line a planet spins on
Axis
What are made of ice and dust and can form tails?
Comets
What do Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have in common?
What are they gaseous planets (gas giants) or outer planets
Galaxies come in different shapes. Name one common shape.
What is spiral, elliptical, or irregular?
True or False: The Sun looks bright because it is the largest star in the Solar System. And tell me why
True
The process of planet going around the Sun is called?
what is Revolution
What are rocky and usually found in the asteroid belt.
Asteroids
Explain one difference between inner planets and outer planets.
Inner planets are rocky and closer to the Sun; outer planets are made of gas and farther from the Sun.
If the Sun suddenly became farther away from Earth, what would most likely happen to Earth’s temperature and why?
Earth would become colder because it would receive less heat and light from the Sun.
Why does the Sun appear larger and brighter than other stars in Earth’s sky?
Because it is the closest star to Earth.
This is the term for the spinning of a planet on its axis.
What is rotation