Onward We Go
Stars and Sun
Gravity
Vocabulary
100

A ______ is the first model of something.

What is a prototype? 

100

The only star in our solar system is the _______.

What is the Sun?

100

The force that pulls things towards the center of the earth is called ______.

What is gravity? 

100

When you _______ something, you are saying that a specified thing will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something.

What is predict?

200

Two tools that are used to measure are ______ and ______. 

Answers may vary.

200

The ______ color stars are the coolest.

What is red?

200

Your weight is ______ on space than it is on Earth. 

What is less? 

200

____ is the study of celestial objects, space and the universe.

What is astronomy?

300

Marie Curie received the _____ Prize for her discoveries. 

Presidential 

Tony

Nobel

What is Nobel?

300

A star is a ball of hot ______.

What are gases? 

300

Anything with ____ has gravity.

What is mass?

300

A _____ is an an object in space that move around a moon, planet, or star. 

What is satellite?

400

A _______ is a copy of the real thing and allows scientists to answer questions about how things work.

model

description

illustration

What is a model?

400

It would take a person ______ years to travel to the sun.

200

160

100

275

What is 160?

400

The _____ the object is, the more gravitational force it has. 

lighter

heavier

What is heavier?

400

When you are _____ something, you are producing and discharging something. 

emitting

refracting

surviving

What is emitting?

500

The physicist that discovered the metals radium and polonium is ______.

George Washington

Marie Curie

Mrs. Odom

Who is Marie Curie? 

500

The sun emits energy in the form of _____ and heat. 

What is light?

500

____ is a force that can be overcome. 

What is gravity?

500

_____ is identifying problems and designing solutions using appropriate tools and models.

Engineering