Solar System 1
What is the solar system?
It is made up of the Sun and its family of nine planets
What is the Sun?
This is the centre of the solar system. The planets revolve around it.
What is Venus?
This planet is called the morning or evening star because it appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise. The 4th planet
What are constellations?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that, to some people, seem to be in the shapes of pictures.
This force keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
Gravity.
What are asteroids?
These are chunks of rock and metal that orbit between the planets.
What is the Milky Way?
This is the galaxy that we live in.
What is Jupiter?
This planet is the 5th from the Sun. It is the largest planet and it best known for its beautiful colours and its Great Red Spot.
What are comets?
These have a bright head and long, shining tail. They shine partly because of light absorbed and re-radiated from the Sun and partly because of reflected sunlight.
What is the "Red Planet"
Mars.
What are comets?
These are loose collections of rocks and frozen gases that orbit between the planets.
What is Mercury
The planet is closest to the Sun.
What is Saturn?
This planet is the 6th from the Sun. It is best known for the beautiful system of rings that circle the planet.
What are 24 hours?
This is how long it takes the moon the circle Earth.
What is the 3rd planet from the Sun?
Earth
What is a planet?
This is a body that does not give off light of its own. It reflects the light of the Sun.
What is Pluto?
This planet is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Uranus?
This planet is the 7th from the Sun. Unlike other planets, this planet lies on its side. It is greenish in colour and has 9 faint rings with 5 moons orbiting the planet.
What are 365 days?
This is how long it takes Earth to circle the Sun.
What is considered the dwarf planet?
Pluto
What are stars?
These objects produce and give off their own heat and light.
What is the moon?
This body travels around Earth. It is known as Earth's satellite.
What is Neptune?
This planet is the 8th from the Sun. It can only be seen through a telescope. Little is known about this distance planet. It is blue.
What is astronomy?
This is another name for the study of space.
What is a meteorite?
A piece of meteror that lands on Earth