Star Talk
This is the star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
The Sun is classified as this type of object.
What is a star?
The Moon gets its light in this way.
What is reflecting light from the Sun?
This causes objects to fall back to the ground when dropped.
What is Earth’s gravity?
This is where is the Sun is at night.
What is the other side of the Earth?
A picture, diagram, or 3D object—that helps us understand, explain, or predict how something works in the real world
What is a model?
A very large star can appear dimmer than a smaller star because of this factor.
What is distance from Earth?
This term describes the Moon when only a small curved part is visible.
What is a crescent?
This force keeps the Moon moving around Earth instead of drifting away.
What is Earth's gravity?
When your side of Earth faces the Sun, this time of day occurs.
What is daytime?
This is the path Earth takes as it moves around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
This is the reason the Sun looks brighter than other stars in the sky.
What is that it is closer to Earth?
The phase when the moon is completely lit.
What is a full moon?
This force keeps the planets orbiting around the Sun.
What is the Sun's gravity?
This is the cause of day and night on Earth.
What is Earth’s rotation?
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
What is a constellation?
As you move farther away from a star, this happens to its brightness.
What is it decreases (gets dimmer)?
When Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
As you move farther from Earth, this happens to gravity.
What is it becomes weaker? (Decreases)
This is how long it takes Earth to complete one full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
Ours is the Milky Way.
What is a galaxy?
These two things affect how bright a star looks from Earth.
What are distance and size?
These cause us to see different phases of the Moon throughout the month.
What are the Moon’s changing positions relative to Earth and the Sun? (The moon's orbit)
In the absence of air resistance, heavier and lighter objects fall at the same rate because of this.
What is gravity pulling equally on all objects?
This model helped us to understand the rotation and orbit of the Earth.
What is the mount-nose model? Any model we used in the unit