Solar System
Sailors and astronauts use the ________ to navigate.
What are stars?
Also known as the Red Planet
What is Mars?
___________ is another name for the outer planets.
Cosmic snowballs of frozen gas, rock, and dust
What are comets?
A group of stars that form a particular shape in the sky and are given a name.
What are constellations?
Time it takes for Earth to complete one rotation on it's axis.
What is one day/24 hours?
A dark area or shape produced by an object coming between rays of light and a surface.
What is a shadow?
___________ is a star and all the objects that travel around it.
What is a solar system?
Bowl-shaped holes created from objects in space hitting planets.
What are craters?
___________ are known as natural satellites that orbit planets and asteroids.
What are Moons?
Rocky, airless fragments left over from the beginning of the solar system
What are asteroids?
The time it takes for a planet to complete one revolution around the Sun
What is a year?
An imaginary line that runs from Earth's North and South Poles through the center of Earth.
What is axis?
The sun rises in the _________ and sets in the ______.
What is rises in the East and sets in the West?
Spiral-shaped Galaxy that Earth is located in...
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
________ planets is another name for the inner planets.
What is Terrestial?
The path a planet takes as it revolves around the Sun
What is orbit?
Most asteroids are located between these two planets
Planets further from the sun that Earth will have a longer __________.
What is year/orbit?
________ results from Earth's rotation
What is Day/Night?
Shadows are _________ in the morning and the evenings and ________ in the middle of the day.
What is Shadows are longer in the morning and evenings and shorter in the middle of the day.
Most models of the solar system are unrealistic because___________.
What is the solar system is so vast they are not made to scale?
What is life and liquid water?
__________ is the windiest planet and the only planet not visible to the naked eye.
What is Neptune?
What is the scientific name for "shooting star"?
What is a meteor?
_________ is the first African American woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Name two words that explain the Earth's movement around the Sun.
What is orbit and revolve/revolution?
Explain how the amount of daylight changes throughout the year.
What is...we have more daylight in the Summer and less daylight in the Winter.
_____ is the distance light travels in one year
What is A light year?
Explain the difference between inner and outer planets.
What is
Inner planets are smaller, closer to the sun, and have a hard and rocky surface with craters and a solid core
Outer planets are colder, further from the Sun, made of gas and have rings around them.
Twice as massive as all the other planets combined, _________ is known for its giant storm known as the Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
What is
Meteoroids: objects in space
Meteors: enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up
Meteorites: Survive Earth's atmosphere and hit the ground.
Explain why we see different constellations throughout the year.
___________ causes the seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis causes the Earth to receive more or less direct sunlight throughout the year based on its orbit around the Sun?
Explain the direction of shadows in relation to the Sun.
What is Shadows move West to East (opposite direction that the Sun rises and sets) and point away from the Equator.