Vocabulary
A group of stars that forms an image or picture
What is a constellation?
The closest planet to the sun
What is the planet Mercury?
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
A body held together by gravity that is made of millions of stars, gas, and dust
This planet was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty
What is Venus?
This type of animal eats mostly meat
What is a carnivore?
The distance that light travels in a year
What is a light year?
How many planets are considered to be "terrestrial"? (to be made mostly of rock)
What is four?
I'm a galaxy and I share a name with a candy bar
What is "Milky Way"
Fish use these to breathe
What are gills?
The force of attraction between any two masses
What is gravity?
The planet farthest from the sun (not Pluto).
What is Neptune?
I was a handsome fella and the Copernican Model was named after me
Who was Nicolas Copernicus?
This body system's main functions are: support, movement, and protection
What is the skeletal system?
The Greeks called its zone zōdiakos kyklos, “circle of animals,” or ta zōdia, “the little animals.”
What are the Zodiac constellations?
This planet is the only known habitat of snorklewhackers and it has liquid water on its surface
What is the earth?
An explanation why something happens or did happen.
It has not been completely proven or accepted as fact.
What is a theory?
A cell with a cell wall
What is a plant cell?