Planets
The closest planet to the sun
Mercury
What force keeps an object in orbit?
What is gravity?
How long does it take Earth to orbit the sun?
What is one year?
To prove a claim, we need...
What is evidence?
This type of eclipse happens when the Moon blocks the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
The ringed planet
What is Saturn?
What is the main natural satellite of Earth?
What is the moon?
Where is the asteroid belt located?
An educated guess is often called this ....
What is a prediction or hypothesis?
This type of eclipse happens when Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
Which inner planet is the largest?
What is Earth?
This tool uses lenses or mirrors to make faraway objects in space, like planets and stars, appear closer.
What is a telescope.
How long is one rotation of Earth?
What is one day?
This famous space telescope launched in 1990 and takes detailed images of galaxies
What is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
Seasons are caused mainly by this tilt of Earth.
What is axis.
Pluto is now known as what type of planet?
What is a dwarf planet?
How many moons does Mars have?
Two
What does JWST stand for?
What is International James Webb Space Telescope?
Some thing that takes up space and has mass.
What is Matter?
When the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward the Sun, it experiences this season.
What is summer?
Planets orbit....
What is the sun.
A massive, super dense object in space that does not allow light to escape from it
What is a black hole?
What do we call the a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year
What is a light year?
Who actually has a crush on Michael in our book In the Red?
Who is Lilith?
This happens when day and night are about the same length everywhere on Earth.
What is equinox?