These 34 task cards match Virginia's SOL's 4.7 & 4.8 (Earth Patterns, Cycles, & Change). Topics covered are pulled from Virginia's Essential Knowledge from the Curriculum Framework. Cards 1-10: Earth, Moon, and Sun relationships: rotation, revolution, Earth, Sun, Moon characteristics, famous astronomers (Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo), NASA Apollo space missions.Cards 11- 24: Solar System and Planets: planet names and characteristics, the asteroid belt, terrestrial and gas