Earth and Space Unit 7 The Solar System

What is the name of the force that causes a comet's tail to always face away from the sun?

Which of the following distinguishes a planet from a dwarf planet?

What was the name of the planetismal that collided with early Earth to form the Moon?

The distance between Earth and the sun varies every year due to:

Which of the following planet DOES NOT have rings

Which type of telescope uses mirrors and lenses to gather and focus light?

Which planet is the least dense

I can list and draw all the planets in order from the sun

Day and night is caused by:

Which of the following terms means the moon is getting BRIGHTER

meteors are:

If a person is standing in the moon's umbra they will observe:

Who first observed that Jupiter had moons?

Which member of the solar system has the most mass and therefore the most gravity?

The tilt of Earth's axis is responsible for what?

Which of the following is the first step of solar system formation?

All planets orbit the sun in an oval-shaped path called an:

Why are the the footprints of the Apollo astronauts still on the moon?

I can shade and label all the phases of the moon based on the relative positions of the Earth and the Sun

Which of the following are part of the electromagnetic spectrum?

Who first proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

What causes tides?