Astronomy Part 1 Vocabulary

The students in Mrs. Pendley and Mrs. West's class were studying the objects in our solar system so Mrs. Watson knew they were studying ____________________.

Our Sun, the 8 Planets, along with asteroids and comets make up our _________________________.

Venus is a _________________ that orbits the Sun, a star, and produces no light of its own.

I know the ___________________ of Jupiter because it is 5th planet from the Sun and is one of the Gas Giants placed in the Outer Planets.

I can find the _____________________ Ursa Major because of the geometric arrangement that is makes in the night sky.

The boys and girls in Mrs. Pendley's Science class were playing a game to win a prize for who knew the most about space. Mrs. Pendley asked, "What star is at the center of our Solar System?"

We live on the 3rd planet from the Sun called ________________.

The Earth makes a path called an _________________ around the Sun as it moves around it every year.

Our Sun is a ball of hot gas called a _____________________.

The sailor used a _______________ to determine latitude and longitude so that they would know where they were located.

The sailor used an ancient instrument called a  __________________ to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars.

When the kids were lost in the woods, they used a _________________ that helped them figure out which direction was the right one to walk towards for help.

My father was trying to point out Saturn in the night sky, but I could see it much better when I looked through the ________________.

My friend, Salv, lived in Ecuador near the __________________, which is an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North and South Pole.

Tara lived near the North _______________, which is the furthest point North on Earth. It is one of the opposite, magnetic parts of the Earth.