Solar System
The Sun and the objects that are traveling around it
Solar System
The force of attraction between an object and another object
Gravity
The third planet from the Sun
Earth
The outer planets are beyond the
Asteroid Belt
Groups of stars that form patterns in the sky
Constellations
The nine largest objects that travel around the Sun
Planets
The Sun provides us with
Heat and Light
The inner planets are closest to
The Sun
Small, rocky, minor planets that orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt
Asteroids
Earth's nearest neighbor
The Moon
The time needed for one complete trip of a planet around the Sun
A year
The tendency of a moving object to keep moving in a straight line
Inertia
The only planet that has the right temperature and resources for life as we know it
Earth
Space rocks that reach the ground
The Sun is composed mostly of
Hydrogen and Helium
The path a planet travels as it goes around the Sun
Orbit
The Sun's light shines differently throughout the year because of Earth's
Tilt
The largest planet in our solar system
Jupiter
Another name for a shooting star
Meteor
A region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
Asteroid Belt
The Milky Way, a star system in the universe, is
A Galaxy
The Sun holds Earth in orbit because of
Gravity and Inertia
Names of the four inner planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
"Dirty snowballs" or mixtures of ice, rocks, and dust left over
Comets
The different amounts of lightened parts of the Moon
Phases