Earth is the _____ planet from the sun.
What is third?
True or false: The sun is the largest star in our galaxy.
What is true?
The names of the inner planets are ______.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
A group of stars is called this.
What is a constellation?
Shadows are created when____.
What is when the Earth/objects block the sun?
Earth is a planet in this system.
What is our solar system?
The moon does this around Earth.
What is rotate and revolve?
The inner planets are mostly made up of this.
What are rocks?
Constellations names typically come from ancient stories called these.
What are myths?
True or false: shadows stay the same length throughout the day.
What is false?
Earth rotates on this.
What is its' axis?
True or false: the sun rotates around the planets.
What is false, the planets rotate around the sun.
The names are the outer planets are _____.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune.
True or False: Constellations change every year.
What is false? They stay in a consistant pattern.
Earth does this around the sun.
What is revolves?
Daily Double!
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The outer planets are mostly made up of this.
What are gases?
Constellations look like they move becuase of this.
What is because of the Earth rotating and revolving around the Sun.
Shadows look like different sizes throughout the day becuase of this.
What is the position of the sun in the sky? (or as Earth rotates)
It takes Earth this long to complete one full revolution around the Sun.
What is one year or 365 days?
What is a solar eclipse?
What is the sun is obscured by the moon?
This planet has a 300 year old storm.
What is Jupiter?
Scientists who study the stars/constellations are called this.
What are astronomers?
If the sun is shining on me at the end of the day, my shadow will look like this.
What is long?