The Sun & Its Energy
The star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
This planet is known as the “Red Planet."
What is Mars?
This causes day and night on Earth.
What is Earth's rotation?
These rocky objects mostly orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
Earth spins once every 24 hours, causing this daily cycle.
What is day and night?
The Sun provides this type of energy that warms the Earth.
What is heat energy?
All the planets orbit this object.
What is the Sun?
Earth takes about 365 days to complete this movement around the Sun.
What is a revolution or orbit?
These icy objects have glowing tails when they get close to the Sun.
What are comets?
When one side of Earth faces away from the Sun, it is this time of day.
What is night?
Plants use this kind of light energy from the Sun to make their own food.
What is sunlight or solar energy?
This is the 3rd planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
The tilt of Earth’s axis and its orbit around the Sun causes these yearly changes in weather.
What are the seasons?
When a space rock enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, it's called this.
What is a meteor?
Earth’s axis is tilted at this number of degrees, which affects seasons.
What is 23.5 degrees?
This process, powered by sunlight, helps plants grow and produce oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
The path a planet takes around the Sun is called this.
What is an orbit?
The Moon appears to rise and set each day because of this motion of Earth.
What is Earth's rotation?
This is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite.
What is a meteor burns up in the atmosphere, a meteorite hits the ground?
When it’s summer in the United States, it’s this season in Australia.
What is winter?
These are the particles emitted by the Sun that cause the Northern Lights.
What are solar particles or solar winds?
The four outer planets are made mostly of this instead of rock.
What is gas?
This is the name for the pattern where celestial objects rise in the east and set in the west.
What is apparent motion?
This is the name of the path a comet or asteroid follows around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
The two times each year when day and night are about equal in length.
What are the equinoxes?