Science Vocab review - Earth, Moon, Sun, and Stars

10 questions extracted from Mobymax (Science, Grade 2), to help you review some basic vocabulary about Earth, Moon, Sun, and Stars. To learn more about this topic, get a Mobymax learning account (by going to http://contuhoc.com/mobymax).

• An imaginary line around the outside of the Earth
• A real line through the center of the Earth
• The spin of Earth around an imaginary line
• An imaginary line through the center of the Earth

• spinning on an axis
• spinning in the sky
• staying still in the sky
• staying still on an axis

• A path through another object
• A path around another object
• Spinning around an axis
• A straight path above an object

• a group of stars we cannot see
• a single star in the sky
• a group of stars that form a picture
• a single star that shines brightly

• a hill in the ground that forms a bump
• a bowl-shaped hole in the ground
• a mountain found on the Moon
• a hole in the ground that goes all the way through

• how the Moon orbits the Earth
• the shape of the dark part of the Moon
• how the Moon spins around its axis
• the shape of the lit part of the Moon

• the stars, planets, and other objects that move around the Moon
• the planets, moons, and other objects that move around the Sun
• only the Earth and the Sun
• only the Sun

• a large, round object that travels around the Earth
• a very small object that travels around the Earth
• a large, round object that travels around the Sun
• a very small object that travels around the Sun

• nighttime
• daytime
• summer
• winter

• sunset
• the Moon
• day and night
• the seasons