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Our Galaxy
What is the Milky Way
100
3rd planet from the Sun
What is Earth
100
What is a huge sphere of burning, glowing gas?
What is a star
100
A huge chunk of rock
What is an asteroid
100
study of the stars and space.
What is Astronomy
200
What are the three types of galaxies
What is irregular, elliptical, spiral
200
What are the four outer planets
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
200
It is a nursery for baby stars
What is a nebula
200
What term describes an area in space with gravity so strong that nothing can escape its pull.
What is a black hole
200
distance that light can travel in one year.
What is a light year
300
What is a galaxy made up of?
What is gas, dust and billions of stars
300
These planets are rocky, small and relatively close
What is inner planets (Mars, Mercury, Venus, Earth)
300
Older stars are called
What is red giants
300
What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?
What is pieces of rock or minerals that are flying through space that are commonly called shooting stars, and when meteor falls to Earth,
300
What are two obstacles to traveling to other planets?
What is temperature and distance
400
Where is our solar system located?
What is on the outer arm of the Milky Way
400
Be in orbit around the sun, and not orbiting anything else (In other words, it cannot be a moon of another planet.) Be "squished" into a nearly round shape Be clear of all other objects in its orbit. (In other words, it can't be circling with a lot of other objects in the same orbit.)
What is to be classified as a planet
400
How are stars created?
What is Stars form when gravity pulls the dust and gasses in these clouds together into a clump. As the clump grows, so does its gravitational pull, which brings in more and more dust and gas. Eventually, the clump begins to burn, creating a protostar
400
balls of gas and dust that orbit the sun. As they get closer to the sun, they burn and form a "head" and "tail.
What is a comet
400
What is the term used to describe the spinning motion of a planet on its axis?
What is rotation
500
How did our galaxy get its name?
It comes from the Greeks/Romans because it looked like a milky patch of sky.
500
This planet rotates on its side and this other planet rotates in the opposite direction of all the others
What is Uranus and Venus
500
Why do stars burn and glow?
What is nuclear fusion
500
6 + 3x = 22
What is 5.33
500
Mrs. Opray is making cookies, but she does not have enough flour to make a full recipe. The full recipe calls for 2/3 cup of flour. If Mrs. Opray has enough flour for 3/5 of the full recipe, how much flour does she have?
What is 2/5
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