Planets
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This takes 24 hours.
What is one rotation for Earth?
125 centimeters is the equivalent of how many meters.
What is 1.25 meters?
These are Cardinal Directions.
What is North, South, East, and West?
On a topographic map these are used to represent elevation.
What are contour lines?
Space object that is no longer classified as a planet.
What is Pluto?
The visible part of the sun we can see from Earth.
What is the photosphere?
This formula is used to determine the volume of a box.
What is length x width x height?
The imaginary line that is at 00 latitude.
What is the equator?
Contour lines that are close together represent this type of land.
What is steep/very sloped?
The moon lacks this to slow down the impact of objects from space.
What is an atmosphere?
The Earth revolves around the sun with this type of rotation.
What is prograde rotation?
Liter is a metric measurement for this.
What is a liquid?
This Greek Mathematician - believing the Earth is round - calculated Earth's circumference back in about 240BC.
Who was Erotosthenes?
A clear night and the moon is nowhere in sight.
What is a New Moon?
These are the outer planets in order from closest to sun.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
These can interrupt communications on Earth and can extend several thousand kilometers from the sun.
What are solar flares?
This is the distance measurement in the metric system.
What is a kilometer?
These lines are used on a map to find exact locations at intersecting lines.
What are latitude and longitude?
This instrument is used to view the separation of visible light.
What is a spectrograph?
These planets do not have any moons.
What are Mercury and Venus?
This form of radiation helped to produce the conditions necessary for life on this planet.
What is Ultraviolet Radiation?
The two measurements needed to calculate area.
What is length and width?
These represent the distance east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
In 1543 this Polish astronomer theorized that the sun is at the center of the universe and all planets orbit the sun.
Who is Copernicus?