Amplify Grade 5 Unit 1 Patterns of Earth and Sky

Front

What is a model in science?

Back

A model is something scientists create to represent and understand real-world phenomena.

Front

What is the only star in our solar system?

Back

The Sun.

Front

What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune known as?

Back

Gas giants.

Front

What is a pattern?

Back

A pattern is something we observe to be similar over and over again.

Front

Who studies stars, planets, and other objects in the universe?

Back

An astronomer.

Front

What is the term for the path an object takes as it moves around another object in space?

Back

Orbit.

Front

What force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?

Back

Gravity.

Front

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

Back

Jupiter.

Front

What do we call the movement of the Earth around the Sun?

Back

Revolution.

Front

What is the term for the spinning of the Earth on its axis?

Back

Rotation.