Astronomy Review- 6th Grade

This is the 4th planet from the sun.

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Mercury

This is the 5th planet from the sun.

• Saturn

• Mars

• Neptune

• Jupiter

A path an object takes when it circles around another object

• rotation

• eclipse

• orbit

• daylight

The spinning motion of an object on its own axis

• Rotation

• Eclipse

• Orbit

• Daylight

An object that orbits a star and has enough gravity to become rounded

• Moon

• Meteor

• Planet

• Star

When a shadow is cast, blocking out an object

• New Moon

• Eclipse

• Quarter Moon

• Rotation

This is the name of the zone in a solar system that allows life to survive because it is not too hot or not too cold.

• Twilight Zone

• Sunlight Zone

• Orbital Zone

• Goldilocks Zone

This large unit is used when measuring distances in our solar system, which happens to be the distance from the Sun to the Earth

• Light Year

• Kilometer

• Astronomical Unit

• 1000 km

This term is used for the moon phase when most but not all of the moon is visible.

• Quarter Moon

• Gibbous Moon

• Crescent Moon

• New Moon

A “space rock” that is still in space and the size of a car or smaller

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Comet

• Meteorite