Sun, Earth and Stars

The Sun, Earth, and Moon

The Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in sync with each other.

Learning Intention

I am learning to demonstrate the relationship of the Sun, Earth, and Moon, including orbits and positions.

Vocabulary

• Limitations – a restriction or weakness

• Model – a picture, idea, or object that represents an object, a system, or process that is used to help with understanding; models have advantages and limitations

• Moon – a natural object that orbits a planet; Earth’s Moon is the only natural satellite and Earth’s nearest neighbor in space

• Orbit – the path that one object in space takes around another object in space

• Planet – a large object that orbits a star; the Earth (a planet) orbits the Sun (star)

• Revolution (revolve) – one complete circle made by a planet or satellite around another object

• Solar system – the Sun and all of the objects that move around it

• Sun – a star composed of gases; provides Earth with most of its light and heat energy

Size of the Sun

The sun is the center of our solar system. The sun is a star composed of gases.

About one million Earths could fit inside the sun.

The Earth

Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun.

Water covers roughly 71 % of Earth's surface, and most of that is in the oceans.

Earth has 2 jobs. It orbits the Sun, and at the same time it rotates.

It takes the Earth 365 days to orbit the sun and 24 hours to complete one rotation.

 

The Moon

The Moon orbits the Earth like the Earth orbits the sun.

It is a quarter the size of the Earth. So, it is smaller than the Earth.

Multiple Choice

How long does it take for the Earth to rotate one complete time?

• 24 hours

• 28 days

• 1 month

• 365 days

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the path that the Moon takes around the Earth?

• a phase

• a day

• a revolution

• an orbit

Multiple Choice

The moon revolves around

• sun

• itself

• nothing

• earth

Multiple Choice

While earth is spinning on its axis, it also ___________, or moves in a circular path, around the sun.

• travels

• timewarps

• rotates

• revolves

Multiple Choice

What is earth's curved path around the sun called?

• rotation

• orbit

• revolve

• year

Multiple Choice

All of our ______ comes from the sun.

• knowledge

• time

• food

• energy

Multiple Choice

Our sun is a

• moon

• comet

• planet

• star

Multiple Choice

Earth's spinning causes______?

• dizziness

• earthquakes

• day and night

• the moon light up

Multiple Choice

An ______ is an imaginary line that Earth spins on.

• equator

• axis

• line

• orbit

Fill in the Blank

The sun is a

Fill in the Blank

The sun is the _______ of our solar system.

Multiple Choice

Earths complete orbit around the sun gives us

• a year

• a headache

• an hour

• a day