Space
This term means everything that exists, including stars, planets, and galaxies.
What is the universe?
This force pulls objects towards each other and keeps the planets orbiting the Sun.
What is gravity?
The path that Earth follows around the Sun is called this.
What is an orbit?
This term means an object resists changes in its motion.
What is inertia?
An orbit is the path that a planet follows around the Sun.
True
This object shines in the sky because it burns gas at its center.
what is a star
This celestial body has about 1/6th of the Earth’s gravity.
What is the Moon?
When a planet goes around the Sun once each year, this is called a ___________.
What is a revolution?
When is the Earth closer to the sun? January or July
What is January
The Earth's rotation causes the seasons to change.
False (The change in seasons is due to Earth's revolution around the Sun and its axis tilt.)
This is a large, round object that orbits a star and reflects its light.
what is a planet
During winter solstice, this sections of earth experiences the shortest day of the year.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
This movement causes the Sun to appear to rise and set each day.
What is rotation?
In a vacuum, If two balls of the same size, but different weights, are dropped at the same time, which will hit the ground first? the heavier or lighter ball?
What is neither, they will hit the ground at the same time!
The Northern Hemisphere experiences summer when the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun.
False (The Northern Hemisphere experiences summer when the North Pole is tilted towards the Sun.)
Our galaxy is called this. It's where Earth is located.
What is the Milky Way?
This imaginary line splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The Earth's axis is tilted at about this number of degrees, which affects our seasons.
What is 23.5 degrees?
Where can you jump higher? Earth or the Moon
What is the moon.
During its revolution around the Sun, Earth takes about 365 days to complete one orbit.
True
The idea that the universe began with a big explosion about 13.8 billion years ago is known as this.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Gravity is strongest at this location.
What is the Earth's surface?
The sun rises in the ________ and sets in the ________.
What is East, West.
According to this law, an object stays still or keeps moving unless something makes it change.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
Inertia is the property of an object to resist changes in its motion.
True