Planets
This planet is rotating on its side
Uranus
Earth has four of these... Including Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern.
Hemispheres
Earths only NATURAL satellite.
The Moon.
Earths axis is tilted at...
23.5 degrees
A group of stars that form an image in space are called?!
Constellations
Invisible line that goes through each planet
Axis
In the winter we experience longer ________ and shorter _______.
longer Nights and shorter Days
Separates the rocky planets from the gassy ones
Asteroid Belt
Earth has ___ seasons
4
Our solar system is apart of this larger galaxy.
The Milky Way Galaxy
Saturn has beautiful rings made of three main ingredients...
Rocks, Ice, Dust
Where does earth experience summer like conditions year around?
Along the Equator
This object has a very long orbit and forms a tail over time.
Comet
If the North hemisphere is in fall/autumn what season is the Southern hemisphere in?!
Spring
What holds all planets in our solar system in orbit.
The suns gravitational pull
This is found outside of Neptune
Kuiper Belt
Where on Earth are they experiencing total darkness right now?!
The extreme northern hemisphere/north pole
An object past neptune that we used to consider a planet... Now it is a dwarf planet.
PLUTO
Why do some stars that are massive and very bright look so small from earth? While our sun looks so big and bright.
Because they are so far away.
Oval
Elliptical
This planet is home to the largest mountain in our solar system...
Mars/Red planet
People originally used ______ to tell time.
Shadows
This object killed the dinosaurs.
Meteorite
Earth is ____ to ____ percent water.
70-75%
Center of Earth
IRON