What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
100
To go all the way around, orbiting an object
What is revolve?
100
Why we have different seasons
What is the tilt of the Earth causes us to have more or less direct sunlight, depending on where we are in our orbit around the sun?
100
When the Earth gets right in between the sun and the Moon, casting its shadow on the Moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
100
An exploding star
What is a supernova?
200
The astronomer who first said that Earth revolves around the sun
Who is Copernicus?
200
To spin
What is rotate?
200
The four major layers of Earth
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
200
What the atmosphere is like on the Moon
What is no atmosphere?
200
A pattern of stars in the sky that make a dot-to-dot picture
What is a constellation?
300
The astronomer who learned how to study space with a telescope
Who is Galileo?
300
Places on the sun that are cooler than the rest of the sun
What are sunspots?
300
The four reasons Earth has the perfect atmosphere to sustain life
What are...
1) Our atmosphere gives us oxygen to breathe
2) It allows us to grow plants
3) It keeps our temperature steady
4) It protects us from meteorites.
300
The Moon's effect on Earth's oceans
What is it pulls on the ocean, causing the ocean's tides?
300
A large group of stars
What is a galaxy?
400
The name of America's space agency that builds equipment for studying space, trains astronauts, and sends spacecraft into space
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)?
400
When the Moon gets in between the sun and the Earth, the Moon can block the sun's light, making it dark even during the day.
What is a solar eclipse?
400
The reason Earth has the perfect size / mass to sustain life
What is the size / mass gives Earth perfect gravity?
400
Why there are footprints on the Moon
What is because there is no wind or rain to wipe them away?
400
The name of the North Star
What is Polaris?
500
There are two types of satellites: God made satellites, like the moon, and people made satellites, like a spacecraft.
What are natural satellites and artificial satellites?
500
The distance from the Earth to the Sun
What is roughly 93 million miles?
500
The 7 things that make Earth the only planet that can support life
What is...
1) Its distance from the sun
2) Its size (mass)
3) Its rotation
4) Its atmosphere
5) Its tilt
6) Its land
7) Its magnetosphere
500
Why the moon has phases
What is as it circles the Earth, we are able to see different parts of the daytime side of the Moon?