Planets
Second planet from the Sun
What is Venus?
area that receives direct sunlight
What is the Equator?
Earth's placement in comparison to the Sun
What is the third planet?
The location of the Sun in our solar system
What is the center?
Two materials the inner planets are made of
what is rock and metal?
Invisible line that runs vertically through the center of Earth
What is Axis?
What are the poles?
word for Earth spinning on its Axis
What is rotating?
smaller than a planet an can be found between Mars and Jupiter
What are asteroids?
What is Day?
Zone that New Jersey is in
the Earth's axis is tilted at this degrees
it takes 24 hours for the Earth to do this
What is rotate on its axis?
Date with the shortest amount of daylight during the year
The time it takes for the planet to orbit the Sun
What is year?
Name of the imaginary line at 23.5oS
The hemisphere tilted towards the Sun in August
What is the northern hemisphere?
this object orbits around the Earth
What is the moon?
This is the percent the Sun takes up of our atmosphere
What is 99.85%
Order of all 8 planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Celestial body in the night sky that never moves
What is the Polaris (North Star)?
length of time to experience all 4 seasons
What is a year (365 days)?
the shape of the path Earth takes around the Sun
What is ellipse (oval)?
date of the Summer Solstice
What is June 21st?