| Vocabulary | Celestial Systems | Predictable Planets | Martian Movement |
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What is planets
Neptune, Jupiter, Venus,
and Mercury are all examples of celestial bodies called … |
What is stars, planets, sun,
moon, comets, asteroids, satellites
Name three bodies of
matter that are found in our solar system. |
What is Mercury.
Which planet has the
shortest orbit (or revolution)? |
What is (The person, Earth,
should be leaning to the side and spinning around its imaginary axis.)
We learned that Earth
rotates on its axis. Pretend you’re the Earth and demonstrate what it means to rotate on your axis. |
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The side of the moon
facing the Earth receives no light.
Describe what a “new
moon” looks like |
What is 1- No. 2- The sun is
much closer to Earth than all other stars, so it appears bigger but it is still a star.
Raphael tells
you that the sun is not a star because the sun is much bigger than a star. 1- Is he right? 2- Explain how you know? |
What is summer.
The Earth travels around
the sun. When the northern hemisphere is tilting towards the sun, what season is it in the northern hemisphere? |
What is because the Earth is
revolving around the Sun.
The stars you see from the
Earth in the summer look different from the stars you see in the winter sky. Why? |
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What is a large collection of
stars, gases, and dust that are part of the universe (e.g., the Milky Way galaxy) bound together by gravitational forces. Our home galaxy is the Milky Way.
What is a galaxy? What is
our home galaxy? |
What is comets are made mostly
of ice, and asteroids are made mostly of rocks
Astronomers study many
different kinds of objects in our Solar System. How would you describe the difference between comets and asteroids? |
What is Uranus! Outer planets:
longer revolutions, are gases, inner planets: shorter revolutions, solid.
I’m made of methane,
helium, and hydrogen. It takes me 84 years to travel/revolve around the sun. Is it more likely that I’m Venus or Uranus? Explain why! |
What is outer planets are
much bigger than inner planets.
In terms of size, how
can you show with your body movements to demonstrate what the planets look like closest to the sun compared to the ones farther away? |
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What is to revolve (or a
revolution) is one object traveling/moving around another. To rotate is when an object is spinning/turning on its axis.
How would you describe
the difference between revolve and rotate? |
What is the Earth rotates on its
axis, or, the earth turns so that we sometimes face towards or away from the sun
How would you explain
why we have day and night on Earth? |
What is the Earth’s tilt.
On Earth, what is most
responsible for the differences in seasons? The tilt of the Earth OR the distance from the sun? |
What is moon goes around
Earth or Earth goes around the sun.
Show what it means to
do a revolution. Pretend one of you is the Earth and the other is the moon, and act it out! Describe what you are doing. |
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