Galaxy
Our Galaxy
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
A hot, glowing ball of gases
What is a star?
The small, rocky planets
What is the inner planets?
The circular motion of an object around its center/axis
What is rotation?
Why the Moon appears to give off light
What is the Moon reflects the light from the Sun?
A rock that can vary in size and is found in between Mars and Jupiter
What is an asteroid?
Why the Sun appears larger and brighter from Earth than other stars.
What is it is the closest star to Earth?
The large, gas planets
What is the outer planets?
To move around another object
What is revolve?
Causes the Moon to change appearance or phases
What is the Moon's revolution around Earth?
A small, frozen chunk of dust and gas that revolves around the Sun
What is a comet?
Number of planets in our solar system
8
Separates the inner and outer planets
What is the asteroid belt?
Why the Sun appears to move across the sky in the daytime
What is Earth's rotation on its axis?
How the Sun, Earth and Moon are positioned when a Full Moon occurs
What is the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun?
Makes up most of the gases in outer space
What is hydrogen and helium?
Keeps all of the objects in the Solar System orbiting the Sun
What is the gravitational pull caused by the Sun’s mass?
Planets that do not have moons
Mercury and Venus
Determines our year and the change in seasons
What is Earth's revolution around the Sun?
How the Sun, Earth and Moon are positioned when a New Moon occurs
What is the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun?
Why dust is so important to our galaxy
What is it is used in the formation of stars and planets?
Causes the difference between the length of each planet's year
What is the time it takes a planet to revolve around the Sun?
Planets in order from the Sun
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The imaginary tilted line that Earth rotates about
How often a full moon occurs
What is 29 1/2 days?