Planets
Which planet is the farthest from the Sun?
Which of the following are considered to be terrestrial planets?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
Andrea is making a computer animation to model the motions of the Sun, Earth, and the Moon. Which orbit should happen most often in her model?
What is Earth's orbit around the Sun?
Some physical characteristics of the Sun are listed below:
The Sun
• Medium-sized star
• 110 times the size of Earth
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Which characteristic accurately completes the list?
A Rocky core
B Liquid water
C Many craters
D Gas atmosphere
What is gas atmosphere?
This is the center of our Solar System.
What is the Sun?
What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Order the planets according to distance from the Sun. Start with the closest planet to the sun.
What is
Felicia noticed how air temperatures were cooler and there were fewer hours of daylight during some of the seasons. Choose all the factors that cause these seasonal changes.
A Earth rotates on its axis.
B Earth revolves around the Sun.
C The Sun has less energy in winter.
D Earth's axis is tilted compared to its orbit.
E The Sun moves further from Earth in winter.
What is
B. Earth revolves around the Sun.
D. Earth's axis is tilted compared to its orbit.
This is the closest planet to the Sun.
What is Mercury ?
Earth is the only planet known to support this.
What is life ?
Place the names of the planets in order from smallest to largest.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter ?
Jessica watches the Sun set in the evening sky. What causes the setting of the Sun?
What is rotation of Earth?
Kira notices that the plants in the school garden are green and growing in July, but are brown in December. Why do plants grow more in summer than in winter?
What is longer daylight hours and warmer temperatures?
This "Red Planet" is known for its iron-rich soil.
What is Mars?
This is the phase of the Moon when it appears fully lit from Earth.
What is a full moon?
Planets closer to the sun, take ______ time to revolve around the sun as planets farther away from the sun.
Which event takes about one year to complete?
What is Earth's orbit around the sun?
Brianne sees the Moon in the sky. The Moon is all dark. What does she know about the locations of the Sun, Earth, and the Moon?
What is Moon is positioned between the Earth and the Sun?
Earth has this many moons?
What is one?
The Sun provides this energy, which plants use to make food.
What is sunlight?
What force keeps the planets orbiting the sun?
Which term describes the path the Moon travels around Earth?
What is orbit?
Choose all of the features that are found on both Earth and the Moon:
A iron core
B rocky crust
C liquid water
D thick mantle
E gas atmosphere
What is
his planet is famous for its rings.
What is Saturn?
Earth rotates on its axis, causing this natural phenomenon to occur.
What is day and night?