What is the name of the imaginary line that Earth rotates around?
axis
What is the 3rd planet from the sun? It is the ONLY planet in our solar system that life exists.
Earth
What is a natural satellite that orbits a planet?
moon
What 2 FORMS of energy does the SUN, the star at the center of our solar system give us?????
heat and light
How many hours are in one rotation of the Earth on its axis?
24
What is the number 365 1/4 days?
The time it takes for the Earth to make one revolution / orbit around the sun.
Why do we see other stars as only specks in the sky, even though they are larger than the sun?
Because we are closer to the SUN!
What characteristic affects how bright a star appears to us?
A star's distance from Earth affects how bright it appears to us.
Are there ANY other stars closer to the Earth than the sun???
No
To use the senses to examine or inspect.
Observe
