Vocabulary
Nearly correct or exact.
What is approximately?
What planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury
Why did astronomers doubt that Pluto was a planet?
What is it traveled in an oval-shaped orbit ?
The order, or steps, in which events happen.
What is chronological order/sequence?
What is the text mostly about? Look at the title and headings, for words that are used more than once, and reread the first and last sentence.
What is central idea?
The act or process of determining something using mathematics.
What is calculation?
What planet is farthest from the sun?
What is Neptune?
What orbits the Sun, is round, and is not a moon or a satellite of another planet?
What is
Shows how things are alike or different.
What is compare and contrast?
The greek root astro means "stars or outer space." What does astronomical mean?
What is of or having to do with astronomy, the science of stars, sun, planets, and other space objects?
To move in a circle around another object.
What is orbit?
A space cloud made up of bits of space dust, rocks, ice, and gas.
What is a nebula?
What region of space was Pluto apart of?
What is Kelper belt?
Why something happens and what happens as a result of it.
What is cause and effect?
Five senses - sights, touch, sound, taste, and smell. To describe the speakers feelings, analyze words or phrases and help create mental images or strong feelings.
What is imagery?
Rules, standards or test by which something or someone can be judged or measured.
What is criteria?
Name all the planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
When did scientist discover what Plutos actual size is?
What is 1930?
An issue is presented then is solved.
What is problem and solution?
The word megaphone is based on the Greek prefix phone-, meaning "sound," and the Greek root mega, meaning "large." What is a megaphone?
What is a cone-shaped device used to intensify or direct the voice?
The lenght of a straight line passing through the center of a circle or sphere.
What is diameter?
What is the main difference between the planets in our solar system?
What is close to sun - rock and far from sun - gas?
As defined by the IAU, what orbits the Sun, is round, and is not a moon, satellite or planet?
What is dwarf planets?
A topic, idea, person, place or thing is described by features, characteristics, or examples.
What is description?
Boing, gargle, clap, zap, and pitter-patter!
What is onomatopoeia?