Sun
What direction does the sun set?
What is the west?
What is the month long cycle of the phases of the moon called?
What is the lunar cycle?
The closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
To move or travel around an object in a curved path.
What is orbit?
The lunar cycle takes approximately this many days.
What is 28?
How much larger than Earth is the sun?
50 times larger? 109 times larger? 1,052 times larger?
What is 109 times larger?
When the moon looks like it is "growing" each night it is called this.
What is "waxing"?
Earth is the (2nd? 3rd? 4th? 5th?) planet from the sun.
What is the 3rd?
The galaxy in which our solar system is found.
What is the Milky Way?
When we see a small sliver of the moon it is called this.
What is a crescent?
What is another name for the sun? Hint: It is a word part hidden inside "solar system".
What is sol?
When the moon looks like it is shrinking each night, we call it this.
What is "waning"?
Jupiter and Neptune are both made up mostly of this substance.
What is gas?
A word meaning to turn on an axis.
What is rotate?
When we see half of the moon it is called this.
What is a quarter moon?
What direction does the sun rise?
What is the east?
When the Earth completes shades the moon and we cannot see it at all in the sky, we call it this.
What is a new moon?
The rings of Saturn are mostly made of of this.
What is ice and rock?
Name two objects besides planets that orbit the sun.
What are: asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, Pluto, Eris, Kuiper belt
When we see more than half of the moon, but not quite the whole thing, it is called this.
What is a gibbous moon?
Is the sun the largest star, the hottest star, or the closest star to Earth?
What is the closest star to Earth?
The moon does not give off its own light. Why do we see it?
What is the Sun's rays reflect off of the moon back to us?
This dwarf planet used to be considered a planet, but scientists demoted it because it was too small.
What is Pluto?
The name for the sun and the eight planets and other objects that orbit the sun.
What is the Solar System?
When Earth blocks almost all of the sun, we can see the shadow of Earth cover the moon called this word.
What is a lunar eclipse?