Space and Technology by Harriet Stansbury Genre Comprehension Skill Nonfiction Alike and Different Text Features Captions Labels Glossary Science Content Earth and Space Scott Foresman Science 2.12 ISBN-13: 978-0-328-34224-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-328-34224-2 ISBN-10: ISBN-10: 0-328-34224-6 0-328-34224-6 Vocabulary axis What didEarth you learn? and Space 1. What is the Sun made of? constellation 2. What is Earth’s axis? Stansbury by Harriet crater 3. Earth’s rotation causes night and day. Write to explain how this happens. 4. Alike and Different Look at the picture of the planets in our solar system. How are the planets alike? How are they different? orbit phase rotation solar system Illustrations: 6, 8, 15, 21, 22 Bob Kayganich Photographs: Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R) Background (Bkgd) Opening: ©Photodisc Green/Getty Images; Title Page: ©Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA; 2 ©Roger Tidman/Corbis; 4 ©SOHO (ESA & NASA)/NASA; 10 ©John M. Roberts/Corbis; 11 ©Taxi/ Getty Images; 12 ©James Randklev-Visions of America/Corbis; 13 ©Royalty-Free/Corbis; 16 ©Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis; 17 ©Jerry Schad/Photo Researchers, Inc.; 18 (B) NASA Image Exchange, (TC) ©Stone/Getty Images; 20 ©John Sanford/Photo Researchers, Inc. ISBN 13: 978-0-328-34224-2; ISBN 10: 0-328-34224-6 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means,