Planets
The 4 planets closest to the sun
What are the inner planets? (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars)
A natural satellite that orbits a planet
What is a moon?
The imaginary line that runs through the center of a planet around which it spins
What is an axis?
The star at the center of our solar system
What is the Sun?
The path of planets, comets, and asteroids around a star
What is an orbit?
The 4 planets farthest from the sun
What are the outer planets? (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
The number of days that it takes the moon to orbit the Earth
What is 28-29 days? OR What is 1 month?
This affects day and night and takes 24 hours for Earth to complete
What is a rotation?
The reason the sun looks larger than other stars
What is the distance from Earth? OR What is the sun is closer than other stars?
This rock is composed of dust, gas, and ice, and it has a tail that burns as it get close to the sun
What is a comet?
These planets are smaller, rocky, dense, and have few to no moons
What are the inner planets?
The number of phases of the moon
What is eight? (new, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, third/last quarter, waning crescent)
It takes one year (365 1/4 days) for Earth to complete this
What is a revolution?
Gas, dust, and hundreds of billions of stars
What is a galaxy?
These rocks are found between Mars and Jupiter
What are asteroids?
These planets are larger, gaseous, have rings, and have many moons
What are the outer planets?
The moon phase when the Earth is between the Sun and the moon
What is a full moon?
This season is experienced when Earth is tilted toward the sun (direct sunlight)
What is summer?
Red, yellow, white, and blue describe this about stars
What is temperature?
These rocks make it to the Earth's surface after passing through the atmosphere
What are meteorites?
The shape of a planet's orbit
What is elliptical?
The moon phase when the moon is between the Earth and the Sun
What is a new moon?
This season is experienced when Earth is tilted away the sun (indirect sunlight)
What is winter?
The Milky Way galaxy is this shape
What is spiral or pinwheel?
These rocks are also called shooting stars (flashes of light in the Earth's atmosphere)
What are meteors? OR What is a meteor shower?