Planets
What is the order of the planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is a burst of high energy radiation made by the sun that can travel to Earth and interfere with cell phone reception and satellite communications
Solar Flare
What does a new moon, the first phase, look like in the sky?
Nothing, a new moon is not visible
The vocabulary term that means "A device used to show what stars are visible at any given time of year"
Planisphere
What percentage of the Earth is covered in water?
70%
What planet does not have any moons?
Venus
What is an exploding ball of burning gas held together by gravity
Star
The vocabulary term that means "Streaks left by an asteroid hitting the moon as material is ejected due to the force of the impact"
Lunar rays
The vocabulary term that means "A tool that provides evidence that the earth is rotating"
Foucault Pendulum
The Earth is how many planets from the sun?
3
What planets are know as the gas giants?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The area around a star that is approximately the right distance to support liquid water on the surface of a planet is called what?
Habitable zone
The alternate rising and falling of the ocean due to the gravitational pull of this space object
The moon
The vocabulary term that means "A large rocky object found flying through space."
Asteroid
The Earth is the ____ largest planet.
5th
True or false: Jupiters red dot is shrinking
True
How hot is the sun?
About 10,000 degrees farhenheit
What year did the astronauts land on the moon? Bonus: What was the mission name?
July 20, 1969; Bonus: Apollo 11
The vocabulary term that means "A force that accelerates (or pulls) an object toward the center of Earth."
Gravity
True or false: The moon is drifting away from Earth.
True
What are planets outside our solar system called?
Exoplanets
What is the reddish star about 1000 times bigger than the sun and more than 600 light years away. It is also the ninth-brightest star in the night sky and second-brightest in the constellation of Orion
Betelgeuse
What is the third phase of the moon?
Quarter moon
What vocabulary word means "The apparent shift of position of some stars through the year"
Stellar Parallax
What is the radius of the Earth in miles?
3959 miles