Planets
The blue and green planet that harbors life.
What is Earth?
This planet rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
Anything with ____ has gravity.
What is mass?
All _________ is just reflected sunlight.
What is moonlight?
A repeating path that planets, moons, satellites, etc., take around another object due to gravity.
What is an orbit?
What is Mars?
This planet has a system of 7 main ring groups.
What is Saturn?
This happens because of the Sun's incredible gravitational force.
Why do all planets orbit the Sun?
The shape we see is simply the portion of the reflected ______ facing our perspective on Earth.
What is sunlight?
Rotation causes ___ and _____.
What is DAY and NIGHT?
This planet is covered in yellow clouds made of toxic sulfuric acid.
What is Venus?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
What are the eight planets in order?
Why does Earth have stronger gravitational force?
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, and Waning Crescent.
What are the stages of the moon?
What is an axis?
The smallest planet and closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
This planet has a huge red spot that is actually a storm.
What is Jupiter?
A fundamental, strictly attractive force exerted by all objects with mass.
What is gravity?
This happens because it orbits Earth, causing the angle of sunlight hitting it - and our view from Earth - to shift daily.
The circular movement of an object around a central point or fixed axis.
What is a rotation?
This planet orbits backward compared to the other planets' rotation.
What is Neptune?
Inner planets are small, rocky/dense, while the outer planets are made of gas/ice.
What are the inner/outer planet characteristics?
A ________ takes about 29.5 days.
What is lunation?
Earth is tilted on its axis of 23.4 degrees, which is why we have _______.
What are seasons?