The Planets
The inner planets are...
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
The Sun provides Earth with ___ and ___.
What is heat and light?
It takes _____ days for the Moon to orbit the Earth
What is 29.5 days?
Earth's orbit is...
What is elliptical?
Define gibbous.
What is hump or hunch?
These planets rotate clockwise.
What are Venus and Uranus?
What is the correct order of meteor, meteorite and meteoroid?
What is Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite?
The Moon appears to give off light because...
What is to reflect the sun's light?
Canada is located in these hemispheres...
What is northern and western?
Define emit.
What is to give off light?
Saturn has _________ rings.
What is 7?
True or false: The seasons in the northern hemisphere are based on how close Earth is to the Sun.
What is false?
The first Moon landing was in...
What is 1969?
It takes ________ ________ for the Earth to make a rotation and ________ _________ for it to make a full orbit.
What is 24 hours and 365 days?
Define axis.
What is the invisible line that goes from the North to the South pole?
What are the hottest and coldest planets?
What are Venus and Saturn?
The Sun is closest to Earth's orbit just after this...
What is the winter solstice?
It is a _____ _____ when the moon is between the Sun and Earth.
What is a New Moon?
It is this season in the Northern hemisphere when the Earth is tilted towards the Sun.
What is summer?
Define constellation.
What is a group of stars that were named for a figure or object by ancient astronomers?
This is the order of the planets from smallest to largest.
What is Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter?
Our solar system includes...
What is the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets?
This is the phases of the moon in order.
What is New Moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, and waning crescent?
These are the two invisible lines that run through the Earth.
What is the equator and axis?
Define the orbital plane.
What is the disk formed from all the planet’s orbital path?