Moon and Stars Quiz #1

Earth's Resources Quiz #1

Rocks and Minerals Quiz #1

Rocks and Minerals

• natural resources-things people use from earth (air, wind, water, rock, minerals, animals, plants)

 

• rock-nonliving hard part of earth.  different sizes, shapes, colors, etc...
• rocks have been used as tools (arrow) and to build walls and buildings

 

• minerals-hard, nonliving parts of soil that can make rocks sparkle or shine (graphite in pencils, flourite in toothpaste, magnetite in magnets)

 

• rocks and minerals take millions of years to form in the ground
• people dig in the ground for rocks and minerals
• rocks can be made of one or more minerals

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Earth's Water Quiz #1

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The Solar System

• A planet is an object that moves around the sun
• The solar system is made of planets, moons, and the sun
• Solar means "of the sun"
• There are eight planets in our solar system
• The sun is the center of the system, the sun is the strongest and brightest part 
• Planets closer to the sun take less time to go around the sun
• Mercury-closest to the sun, rocky
• Venus-hottest planet, thick clouds
• Earth-water, air, one moon
• Mars-two moons, red, rocky
• Jupiter-largest planet, 63 moons
• Saturn-large rings around it, made of ice and rocks, 47 moons
• Uranus has thin rings, 27 moons, Neptune is a blue planet, 13 moons

 

 

 

The Moon and Stars

• Light from the sun shines on the moon
• The moon does not shine it's own light
• The moon is made of rock
• The moon makes a path around the earth called an orbit
• The moon does not change shape, but the parts we can see that are lit up change shape
• Each shape of the moon that we see is called a phase
• Phases appear in the same order every month and repeat

 

• A star is a hot object in space made of glowing gases
• Gases give off heat and light
• Stars look tiny because they are far away
• The sun is close to Earth and looks larger, it is an average size star (normal size)
• The sun is so bright it lights up the sky in the day and we cannot see the stars