All existing matter and space considered as a whole
What is the Universe?
100
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
100
A three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original
What is a model?
100
The movement of the Earth that creates day and night
What is rotation
200
The movement of one object around another object
What is a revolution?
200
The collection of planets and their moons in orbit around a sun, together with smaller bodies such as asteroids, meteoroids, and comets
What is a solar system?
200
The planet closest to the Sun
What is Mercury
200
A ratio of size in a map, model, drawing, or plan
What is scale?
200
The movement of the Earth that measures a year
What is a revolution
300
A single complete turn of the earth or a heavenly body on its axis
What is a rotation?
300
Swirling clouds of dust and gas that form around a star and eventually evolve into individual planets
What is a protoplanet?
300
The third planet from the Sun
What is Earth
300
Imaginary line or center around which something rotates (spins)
What is an axis?
300
The ________ of the Earth creates the seasons
What is the tilt?
400
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon
What is an orbit?
400
The galaxy that contains our solar system
What is the Milky Way
400
The planet with the tallest mountain on it
What is Mars
400
The number of times greater the sun is to the earth
What is 109 times?
400
True or False: You can gather more energy from the sun using solar panels at the North Pole because it gets 24 hours of sunlight versus in Florida that gets 16 hours of sunlight in summer.
MUST EXPLAIN ANSWER
What is False. Because the sun's rays are more direct and concentrated in Florida than at the North Pole.
500
Any natural object outside of Earth’s atmosphere
What is a celestial object?
500
The unit of length, roughly the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
What is an Astronomical Unit
500
All the planets named in order from closest to the sun to farthest
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
500
The percentage of mass that our Sun is in relation to all of the mass in our solar system.
What is 99.86%?
500
The tilting of the Earth causes this to happen with the sun exposure
What is "changes of the amount of sun, both in time and exposure that hits parts of the earth"?