Vocabulary
What star is closest to the Earth?
The Sun.
True or False? The moon reflects light from the sun.
True.
Fill in the blank. An ________ line drawn through the center of the Earth is the Earth's axis.
imaginary
How is the temperature of a star determined?
By it's color.
What is the difference between the inner and outer planets?
The inner planets are rocky and the outer planets are gassy.
False. The moon rises in the East and sets in the West.
What causes a hemisphere on Earth to have summer?
Direct sunshine.
What color are the hottest stars?
Blue.
What is the composition of the moon?
A rock.
What are balls of hot, glowing gasses that twinkle in the night sky?
Stars.
Is the moon a source of light?
No. It reflects light from the sun.
What does the word 'tilt' mean?
Lean.
What color are the coldest stars?
Red.
How does the moon move?
It orbits the Earth.
What is composition?
What something is made of.
False. You can see the moon in the day time and night time.
Does the Earth's tilted axis always point in the same direction?
Yes.
True or False? Stars move.
False. They do not move.
How does the Earth move?
It orbits the sun.
True or False? Planets give off their own light.
False. Planets reflect light.
What are the moon phases in order?
Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous.
We wouldn't have seasons.
Which is larger, stars or planets?
Stars.
Name the 8 planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.