Movement
The Earth's orbit around the sun lasts this long.
What is one year (or 365 1/4 days)?
Eight
What is the number of planets in our solar system?
Without this, the Earth would not experience seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
This object orbits the sun and has an icy tail.
What is a comet?
This force keeps the planets and moons in their orbits.
What is gravity?
How long does it take the Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis?
What is one day or 24 hours?
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
What are the inner planets?
When part of the Earth is tilted closer to the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is summer?
This rocky object is larger than most other types of space debris. Its a big rock, man.
What is an asteroid?
The ordinal position Earth is in when compared to the sun.
What is 3rd from the sun?
The effect of the Earth rotating on its axis.
What causes day and night?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
What are the outer planets?
When part of the Earth is tilted away from the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is winter?
This rocky object is smaller than an asteroid. Like a space pebble, dude.
What is a meteoroid?
This explains why the stars we see at night seem so small, even though they are much larger than our sun.
What is the stars are farther away than our sun?
What is the scientific word for Earth's orbit around the sun?
What is "revolution"?
A planet that is smaller than a regular planet, does not have a regular orbit, and has not cleared its area of other objects.
What is a dwarf planet?
True or False: During winter, that part of the Earth receives indirect of sunlight.
What is true?
This space object enters the Earth's atmosphere. A hunk of burnin' rock!
What is a meteorite?
The main difference between the composition of the inner planets and the outer planets.
What is the inner planets are solid and the outer planets are gas?
The average number of orbits the earth has completed for the students in this class.
What is 10 or 11?
Only the outer planets have this unique feature.
What is rings?
If the northern hemisphere is experiencing winter, the southern hemisphere is experiencing this season.
What is summer?
This is the galaxy in which our solar system resides.
What is the Milky Way?
Most of the comets in our solar system originate from this place.
What is the Kuiper Belt?