Solar System Smarts

What do we call a line through the middle of a spinning thing?

• star

• orbit

• axis

• constellation

What do we call a hot, glowing ball of gas?

• planet

• phase

• solar system

• star

What do we call a group of stars that form a picture?

• orbit

• axis

• constellation

• planet

What do we call the sun, planets and other objects?

• solar system

• planet

• star

• phase

What do we call the path a planet takes as it moves around the Sun?

• phase

• orbit

• solar system

• star

What do we call a large, sphere that moves around the Sun?

• constellation

• orbit

• planet

• axis

What do we call the shape of the Moon that we see?

• phase

• constellation

• solar system

• planet

Does the Sun move?

• yes

• no

Does the Earth move?

• yes

• no

Do the stars move?

• yes

• no