What is that the earth comes between the sun and the moon?
100
the inner planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
Scientists measure long distances in space in this unit.
What are light years?
100
The cause of day and night.
What is the Earth's rotation?
200
The one that is not a type of tide:
Neap Spring Fall Ebb
What is fall?
200
Refer to picture #3
This feature is called a ___.
What is a mare?
plural = maria
200
The word for the elliptical path a planet takes around the sun.
What is orbit?
200
3 types of galaxies.
What are elliptical, spiral, and irregular?
200
The reason(s) for the seasons.
What is the earth’s axial tilt and the earth’s revolution around the sun?
300
Type of tide when the sun and moon are at 90 degrees
What is neap?
300
Refer to picture #1 This phase of the moon.
What is waxing crescent?
300
This planet rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
300
The hottest stars are this color.
What is blue?
300
One day and one year here.
What is 24 hours and 365.25 days?
400
Find the tidal range
11.78 feet High Tide
3.45 feet Low Tide
What is 8.33 feet?
400
Refer to picture #2. This phase of the moon.
What is waning gibbous?
400
Identify 2 of the 3 differences between inner and outer planets.
What are
1) rocky vs. gas giant
2) few moons .vs. many moons
3) and small .vs. large?
400
The brightness of a star as seen from Earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
400
Gravitational pull is influenced the most by what two factors?
What are mass and distance?
500
Set up the proportion to find the model size of a moon if the real Earth is 12,756 km; model earth is 20 cm; Real Moon is 3470 km
(you do not need to solve)
What is
12,750km / 20cm = 3470km / xcm
500
This is why we have moon phases.
What is that we see different parts of the moon at different
times of the lunar cycle (because the moon is orbiting the Earth)
500
Our sun is over this percent (nearest tenth)
of the total mass in our solar system.
What is 99.8%
500
Put these in the correct order from smallest to biggest.
cluster, universe, star, galaxy.
What is star, galaxy, cluster, universe?
500
Compare your weight in these three cases if you were 100 pounds. (you may use qualitative terms like more or less)
a) standing on the planet
b) riding on a roller coaster accelerating up at 2 Gs
c) standing in a elevator accelerating down
What is
a) on the planet = 100 pounds or the same
b) up at 2 Gs = more or about 200 pounds
c) accelerating down = less or about 60 pounds