Space Unit
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What is a galaxy made of? | Gas, dust, stars, and objects that orbit stars.
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| What is our home galaxy? | The Milky Way.
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| How can stars be different from each other? | In size and brightness.
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| Except for the sun, stars are so far away that they look like what? | Points of light.
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| What are stars made of? | Gases.
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| The sun gives off energy in the form of what? | Light and heat.
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| The sun appears large and bright because what? | The sun is the closest star to Earth.
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| What are the inner planets? | Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
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| What is the surface composition, size, and number of moons for the inner planets? | Inner planets have solid surfaces, are small in size, and have 0, 1, or 2 moons.
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| What are the inner and outer planets separated by? | The asteroid belt.
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| What are the outer planets? | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
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| What are the outer plants known as? | The gas giants.
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| How many moons and/or rings do the outer planets have? | The outer planets have multiple rings and moons.
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| What is the movement of the planets? | They revolve around the sun and rotate on an axis.
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| What is the shape of the planets? | All the planets are basically round.
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| What are comets made up of? | Ice, dust, and rocky material.
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| What is a comet's movement? | Comets orbit the sun far out in space.
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| What do comets form as they near the sun? | They form a tail.
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| What is an asteroid made up of? | Metals and rocky material.
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| What is an asteroid's movement? | They orbit the sun beyond Mars.
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| What is a moon's movement? | Moons orbit planets.
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| What are moons known as? | Natural satellites.
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| Earth revolves around the sun in what? | A year (365 days).
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| Earth rotates on its axis in what? | A 24-hour day.
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| What are the moon phases, in order, from New moon? | New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent, New moon.
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| What is the phrase to remember the new moon? | SMENEW
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| What is the phrase to remember the full moon? | SEMFULL
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