SHES 4th Grade Solar System Review

The third planet from the Sun

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Earth

• Saturn

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects.

• telescope

• microscope

• sextant

• thermometer

A group of visible stars that form a pattern when viewed from Earth.

• constellation

• galaxy

• planets

• stars

Makes faint, faraway objects seem brighter and closer.

• telescope

• microscope

• sunglasses

• sextant

The natural satellite that orbits the Earth.

• star

• sun

• moon

• plane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The movement of Earth as it makes an orbit around the Sun.

• rotation

• revolution

• spin

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

It has a rocky, dusty surface with many craters and no water. It has no atmosphere

• the earth

• the star

• the moon

• the astride belt

The name of the central star in our solar system.

• Sun

• morning star

• Venus

• Saturn

An ancient astronomical instrument for solving problems relating to time and the position of the Sun and the stars in the sky.

• telescope

• hourglass

• astrolabe

Earth rotates around this imaginary straight line that runs through the planet’s center.

• compass

• axis

• constellation