Satellite
_____________ : a body that orbits a planet
Star
_____________: a giant ball of superheated gas, or plasma, composed of hydrogen and helium
Planet
____________: an object that orbits a star and is big enough to have become rounded by its own gravity and cleared its orbit of debris
eight
There are _____________ planets in our solar system. [how many?]
Meteor
____________: a streak of light produced when a small piece of rock or ice burns up as it enters Earth's atmosphere
Meteoroid
______________: a piece of rock or ice in space
Comet
_______________: a cold mixture of dust and ice that develops a long tail of light as it approaches the sun
Constellation
___________________: a pattern or group of stars that people imagine represent a figure, animal, or object
Revolution
_______________: the movement of one object around another
24 hours
It takes the Earth ____________ to complete a rotation
west to east
The Earth rotates from ____________. [Which direction to which direction?]
23.5
Earth current axis is tilted at _____ degrees
Rotation
_____________: the spinning of an object on its axis
1 year
The revolution of the Earth takes ______________. [how long?]
Orbit
____________: an object's path around a larger body of mass
ellipse
Earth's orbit is an __________, which is an oval shape.
January
Earth is closest to the sun during ____________. [which month?]
equator
Near the ______________ the Earth is hit directly by sunlight and it does not experience much climate change from season to season.
seasons
Earth has _____________ because its axis is tilted as it revolves around the sun.
summer
When a hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, it experiences ____________.
Equinox
____________: the days when the amount of daytime and nighttime are exactly the same
Law of Universal Gravitation
_________________: Newton's law that states every object in the universe attracts every other object.
Inertia
__________________: the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
No matter if you are on Earth, the moon or just chilling in space, your mass does not change. But your weight depends on the gravity force; you would weigh less on the moon than on Earth, and in space you would weigh almost nothing at all. Earth's gravity
If you traveled to the moon, what would the effect be on your mass and weight? Answer in WRAP. Make sure to talk about BOTH mass and weight.