Key Concepts
___ are very far away from Earth in every direction.
What are stars?
Earth pulls objects down towards the ground with the force of ____.
What is gravity?
How far is the Earth from the sun?
What is about 93,000,000 miles or 0.00016 light years?
Smallest planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury?
Earth's shadow
What is nighttime?
The constellation that has 3 stars in a row on its belt.
What is Orion?
The sun is the only star in our _____. Other stars are far outside our ______.
What is a solar system?
a tool for observing objects in the night sky that are very far away.
What is a telescope?
How long it takes for Earth to complete one orbit around the sun.
What are 365 days or one year?
Largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
How long it takes for Earth to complete one spin.
What is 24-hours or one day?
True or false: All stars in a constellation are the same distance away from Earth. That is why we see their shape in the sky.
What is false?
The sun looks bigger and brighter because it is much _____ to Earth than other stars.
What is closer?
Something scientists make to help answer questions about the real world
What is a model?
What is the Earth's position in its yearly orbit? (Key Concept)
What is Venus?
The stars rise in the ____.
What is east?
The constellation that looks like a square. Known as the "GREAT SQUARE".
What is Pegasus?
The sun is the only star we can see in the daytime because the sun looks so ______.
What is bright?
A description of how something works or why something happens
What is an explanation?
The number of Earths it takes to fit from one side of the sun to the other.
What is 110 Earths?
The hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
Shadows generally begin moving from the ____ due to the Earth's rotation.
What is the west?
What are the same date, and same stars?
Earth ____ once each day. We face the sun in ____, and we face away from the sun at _____.
What is spin, daytime, and nighttime?
a unit of measurement that is equal to the distance light travels in a year
What is a light-year?
An attempt to find something out
What is an investigation?
The planet that rolls around the solar system on its side like a bowling ball down a bowling alley.
What is Uranus?
The time when you will last see a constellation just before the light of our star blocks out their light.
What is sunrise?
The constellation known for having the brightest star in the night sky.
What is Canis Major?
Earth ____ the sun at the same time as it ____.
What are orbits and spins?
all of space and everything in it, including stars, planets, and galaxies
What is the universe?
The amount of time it takes the earth to rotate half way.
What is about 12 hours?
coldest planet in our solar system
What is Neptune?
The earth spins this way if you look at it from the top in outer space.
What is counterclockwise? (to the left as mount nose model)
What was the missing constellation in our artifact?
What is Leo?