The Sun and Stars
Our nearest star, about 7.3 light minutes away or 1 AU away from Earth.
What is the Sun?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are known as the
What is the terrestrial planets?
This object in space is small, rocky and not round. (Many possible answers)
What is an asteroid, moon, meteor, comet?
Proxima Centari is the 2nd closest star from the Earth, around 4 light years away. When we look at this star, the light is actually ________years old
What is 4?
This is one way that Ms. Mejía exercises.
What is cycling or roller skating?
Saturn and Jupiter are known as the...
What are the gas giants?
This is made up of a star and all the materials that orbit it.
What is a solar system.
This planet is the smallest of all the planets in our solar system; it's only slightly larger than Earth's moon!
What is Mercury?
This object is made of ice, dust, and rock, and releases a tail made of gasses and dust when it gets near the Sun.
What is a comet?
You are 14 light years old, so you would have to travel __________ light years away from Earth to see the day you were born.
What is 14?
This is where Ms. Mejía went during spring break.
What is Spain and Italy :) ?
This planet spins almost completely on its side.
What is Uranus?
What is a nebula?
This planet rotates in retrograde, that is, the opposite direction as the other planets. (Two possible answers, name 1.)
What is Venus OR Uranus?
This object is not a planet because it has other objects near its orbit, but it still has a spherical shape.
What is a dwarf planet OR a moon?
Which unit of distance is larger: light year or astronomical unit
What is light year?
This is one location that Ms. Mejía used to live before living in Oregon.
What is California and Costa Rica (briefly).
This planet has 4 famous moons that were first discovered by Galileo: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
What is Jupiter?
These two planets are mostly hydrogen and helium.
What are Jupiter and Saturn
This planet is 30 times further from the Sun compared to Earth (30 AU from the sun)
What is Neptune?
Order objects from largest to smallest: asteroid, star, galaxy, universe, planet
What is: Universe, Galaxy, Star, Planet, Asteroid?
This is used to write really small and really large numbers.
What is scientific notation?
This is the year that Ms. Mejía was born
What is 1992.
This planet has the largest volcano and the deepest canyon in the solar system!
What is Mars?
This process powers the Sun by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium.
What is nuclear fusion
This gas gives both Uranus and Neptune their blue color
What is methane (CH4)?
This causes planets, moons, and stars to be spherical.
What is gravity?
Ms. Mejía has this many first cousins.
26
This is the percent of mass of our solar system that the Sun makes up.
What is 99.8%?