5th Grade Science Unit 2 The Solar System

What is a chunk of rock or iron less than 621 miles in diameter that orbits the sun?

 _______________ is known for the Great Dark Spot.

What is a chunk of frozen gases, rock, ice, and dust orbiting the sun?

What is the study of objects in space and their properties?

A nearly round body smaller than a planet whose orbit crosses the orbit of another body.

The______________ is the closest star.

What is a large round body that revolves around a star?

The___________________ is located between the inner and outer planets.    

What is everything that exists, including galaxies and everything in them?

Stars of the same color have the same __________________________.

What is a star and all the planets and other objects that revolve around it?

It takes the moon about _______________ to revolve around Earth.

Most stars in an elliptical galaxy are located where? 

The Sun emits energy in the form of ______________ and _______________.

The imaginary line that Earth rotates around is known as its ______________.

___________________are the shapes created by the changing amounts of visible areas of the moon.

What is a group of billions of stars, objects that orbit those stars, gas, and dust?

What is the difference between barred spiral galaxy and a normal spiral galaxy?    

Do inner or outer planets have large, solid cores? 

Which planet most likely has the greatest mass?

An ___________________ galaxy sometimes looks like a perfect sphere.

The_____________ planets have a thick, gaseous atmosphere.

What is a huge ball of very hot, glowing gases in space that produces its own light and heat?

Earth’s_______________ is what creates one year.

Earth’s_______________ is what causes day and night.