Vocabulary
What is at the center of the Solar System?
What is the Sun?
The imaginary line the Earth rotates around.
What is an Axis?
Name Earth's seasons.
What is Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring?
Pattern of phases of the moon.
What is the Lunar Cycle?
A large body of rock or gas that revolves around the sun.
What is a Planet?
A group of stars that forms a picture.
What is a Constellation?
The spinning of Earth on its axis.
What is a Rotation?
What is the reason for Earth's seasons?
What is the Tilt of Earth's Axis?
The different shapes the moon has when it is observed from Earth.
What is Moon Phases?
What are the inner planets made of?
What is Rock?
Hot ball of glowing gases?
What is a Star?
The movement of a planet around the sun.
What is a Revolution?
Light rays from the sun heat Earth. What kind of light rays cause Earth to get the warmest?
What is Straight Light Rays?
How long is the lunar cycle?
What is 29 days?
Name the inner planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The path a planet takes as it revolves around the sun.
What is an Orbit?
How long does it take the Earth to revolve around the sun?
What is 365 days or 1 Year?
What season is it when the rays from the sun are striking Earth at the greatest slant?
What is Winter?
A time when Earth's shadow falls on the moon.
What is Lunar Eclipse?
Name the outer planets.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The Sun, the planets, and other objects circling it.
What is the Solar System?
How are Earth and Mars alike?
What season is it when Earth is tilted towards the sun and its rays are straight?
What is Summer?
A time when the moons shadow falls on the Earth.
What is Solar Eclipse?
Name the order of the planets from closest to the sun to farthest away.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?