Category 1
When North America is tilted toward the sun, what season is it?
Summer
What is the star at the center of our solar system?
Sun
What is the length of time for Earth to go around the sun?
a year
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
What is the only planet designed for life?
Earth
What is the name for the planets farthest from the sun?
Outer Planets
What is a heavenly body that is a giant ball of hot, glowing gas?
A star
What is the continual path one heavenly body has around another?
orbit
What is the name for the planets closest to the sun?
Inner Planets
What is an imaginary line at which Earth rotates?
Axis
What is a natural satellite of the Earth?
the moon
Reflects
What is the brightest planet?
Venus
What is the planet tipped on its side?
Uranus
What is the planet that takes the longest to orbit the sun?
Neptune
What is something natural or man-made that orbits the earth?
Satellite
What does the moon reflect the light of?
the sun
What is the sun and all the heavenly bodies together called?
Solar System
What is a small piece of rock in space?
Meteroid
What is a hole on the surface of the moon called?
crater
Things that God created to stay the same?
Constant
What is one way the Earth is designed for life?
position in the solar system, distance from the sun, temperature, plant life, water, water cycle, right atmostphere
What is the sentence we learned to remember the planets in order?
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos
Name the planets in order
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What does the tilt of the earth give us?
Seasons