Vocabulary
The sun and all the planets, satellites, and comets that circle around it.
What is the solar system?
The distance of 1/2 of a diameter of a circle.
What is the radius
What is "Earth's Satellite"?
What is the moon?
In Latin, what does 'sol' mean?
What is sun?
What is the only planet that has plants and animals?
What is Earth?
A representation of the real thing
What is a model
The value given to pi?
What is 3.14 or 22/7?
How many planets have rings?
What is 4
If you thought you saw a shooting star in the sky, what did you actually see?
What is a meteor?
What planet is farthest from the sun and has a temperature of -328 degrees below zero (not including dwarf planets)?
What is Neptune?
Another name for the key to a model
What is a scale?
If we use a basketball to represent a model of earth what type of ball should be used to represent earth's moon?
What is a golf ball?
Which planet takes 88 days to circle the sun? It is very close to the sun.
What is Mercury?
What are big chunks of rock that go around the sun that can be as big as a house, mountain, or even bigger?
What is an asteroid?
100 of this unit makes a meter
What is a centimeter?
What type of scientist studies planets and stars
What is an astronomer.
How long does it take Neptune to circle the sun?
What is 165 years?
What are collections of ice, gas, and dust? The tail of these might be millions of miles long,
What is a comet?
What we call our Milky Way
What is our galaxy.
What is the abbreviation for an astronomical unit.
What is ... an AU.
Name at least 3 planets can be seen in the night sky? (There are 5)
What is Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn?
These are bits of rock and metal. There was a picture of one in our reading book from Antarctica that was 4.5 billion years old.
What is a meteoroid?