Earth and our Solar System

The ______________ _____________ describes how our Solar System formed.

The Rocky Inner Planets include

The Sun is primarily composed of

Equinoxes occur when the Sun's rays are directly over the

If you wanted to tell someone at another location on Earth where a celestial object is you would use

__________________ exist in a 'belt' between Mars and Jupiter

June 21 is the ______________ _______________ in the Southern hemisphere

Meteor showers occur because

The Gas Giants are held together by

The Earth revolves about the Sun every

Groupings of stars that were imagined to form images of objects or creatures are

The Sun is a great big _____________ reactor

______________ are 'dirty snowballs' orbiting the Sun in highly eliptical orbits originating from the Kuiper belt

A lunar eclipse occurs when

Day and night on Earth occur because

An Astronomical unit is equal to

The stream of high energy charged particles flowing from the Sun is called

____________________ form(s) when high energy charged particles interact with molecules in Earth's atmosphere

The study of objects and phenomena in space is

_______________ _______________ is when a planet appears to move backwards through space.