Planets
This planet is closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
A push or pull on an object.
Answer: What is force?
The variable that the scientist changes.
What is the independent variable?
Earth spinning on its axis is called this.
What is rotation?
Natural materials or energy that replace themselves
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
The force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?
The variable that is measured or observed.
What is the dependent variable?
Earth takes about this many hours to rotate once.
What is 24 hours?
Finish the lyrics: can we pretend that airplane in the night sky
are like shooting stars
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The stronger the gravity, the faster objects fall or slower objects fall?
What is faster?
Variables that stay the same in an experiment.
What are controlled variables?
Earth’s rotation causes this daily cycle.
What is day and night?
This was the black inventor of the super soaker
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This planet has beautiful rings made of ice and rock.
What is Saturn?
This scientist explained gravity after watching an apple fall.
Who is Isaac Newton?
A fair test has only this many independent variables changed.
What is one?
When your side of Earth faces the Sun, it is this time.
What is daytime?
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These four planets are called the “gas giants.”
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Gravity keeps the Moon doing this around Earth.
What is orbiting Earth?
In a plant growth experiment, the amount of sunlight changed by the scientist is this variable.
What is the independent variable?
Earth rotates in this direction.
What is west to east?