Question | Answer |
cresent moon | a tiny sliver of a moon |
moon | a large, rocky object that orbits a planet |
waxing | when the moon appears to get larger |
moon phases | the piece of the moon that is reflected by the sun each night (illuminated) |
gibbous moon | looks like almost the whole moon |
new moon | appears as though there's no moon out |
wanning | when the moon appears to get smaller |
star | a large object in space that is made of gas and produces its own light |
galaxy | a system of stars (solar systems) dust, and gases held together by gravity and contained in our universe. |
universe | everything that exists |
constellation | a group of stars that when mentally connected, make a picture in the sky |
orbit | noun- the path the planet takes
verb- to revolve |
rotate | to spin (causes day and night) |
revolve | to go around something (causes years) |
planet | a large, nearly round object that orbits a star |
asteroid | a rocky object that orbits the sun (not spherical and smaller than planets or dwarf planets) |
meteorite | an asteroid or comet that lands on Earth |
Meteor | a comet or asteroid that is in Earth's atmoshpere but burns up |
meteroid | a comet or asteroid that is in space |
comet | an object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves aroung the Sun |
dwarf planet | a sperical object, smaller than a planet that revolves around the sun |
outer planets | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
(Larger, last four, have rings, many moons, made of gas) |
inner planets | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
(smaller, rocky, first four, no rings, few or no moons) |