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What is the axis?
The imaginary line that goes through the North and South Poles.
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What is a year?
Represented by the Earth traveling around all the way around the Sun.
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What is Mars?
The fourth planet from the Sun.
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What is Neptune?
The coldest planet.
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What is gravity?
The force that holds the entire solar system together.
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What is a constellation?
A group of stars that create a pattern or image in the sky.
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What is oxygen?
The gas in the Earth's atmosphere which allows us to breathe the air.
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What is Uranus?
The planet between Saturn and Neptune.
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What is Jupiter?
The planet that has a large storm that appears as a red spot.
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What is Pluto?
The object that is no longer considered a planet.
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What is the solar system?
The Sun, the planets and their moons, the dwarf planets and all other objects that revolve around the Sun.
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What is an gravity?
The shape of the Earth's orbital path.
The force which allows us to stand on Earth without floating away. |
What is Venus?
The second planet from the Sun.
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What is Uranus?
The planet which rotates clockwise and is tilted on it's side.
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What is counter-clockwise?
The direction which the planets orbit the Sun.
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What are the moon's phases?
The different ways the moon looks in the sky.
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What is ellipse?
The shape of the Earth's orbital path. The force which allows us to stand on Earth without floating away.
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What is Neptune?
The eighth planet from the Sun.
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What is Saturn?
The planet known for it's magnificent rings.
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What are the seasons?
Four time per year which are represented by how close or far away we are from the Sun.
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What is an orbital path?
The path an object takes as it moves around another object in space.
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What is a day?
When the Earth spins around one whole time.
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What is Earth?
The planet between Venus and Mars.
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What is Venus?
What is the hottest planet which has volcanoes and a poisonous atmosphere.
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What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The galaxy which our solar system is a part of.
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