6th Grade Solar System

True or False: The moon's gravity affects Earth.

What is the term for the sun, its planets, and other objects that orbit the sun?

Which planets are the gas planets?

What are Pluto, Eris, and Ceres?

Which are the inner planets (mostly solid with minerals)?

What is the curved path the earth takes around the Sun called?

What is a large body of frozen ice and rock that travels toward the center of the solar system?

Which phase is first of the lunar cycle? The moon is between the earth and the sun.

True or False: The near side of the moon always faces earth.

What causes the seasons?

What is a fragment of space material (can be rock, iron or both)?

How long does it take for the Earth to make one revolution around the Sun?

Which tide is it when the water moves off of the beach?

What is this a picture of?

True or False: As the Earth rotates it turns from day to night.

What is the imaginary line running through the Earth's center?

What is the term for a group of stars that form a pattern?

What is the term for a large star that explodes?

Why does it look like the sun goes down at night?

What is the measurement equal to the distance from the Earth to Sun (150 million km)?

When the moon changes from new to full it is called__________________.

Orbits of planets are __________________

Largest planet

Look at the picture, which phase of the lunar cycle is this?

A group of stars, gas, and dust that are held together by gravity is called a

What separates the inner and outer planets?

True or False: The moon produces its own light.

What is the spinning of Earth on its axis called?

Which is true about the life of stars?