The Night Sky
This is a group of visible stars that form a pattern when viewed from Earth.
What is a constellation?
This was a famous 20th-century competition between two powerful nations to see who could achieve the most "firsts" in space exploration.
What is the “space race”?
At a distance of about 150 million km, this is the closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
This is an opening in the Earth’s crust. It acts like a "chimney" for heat and pressure to be released.
What is a volcano?
This is the approximate age of the Earth.
What is 4.6 billion years?
There are this many different constellations.
What is 88?
These were the two countries competing in the “space race.”
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This is the hottest, innermost part of the sun where energy is created.
What is the core?
This type of volcano has the shape of a tall cone with steep sides.
What is a stratovolcano?
This era is considered the “age of the dinosaurs.”
What is the Mesozoic Era?
These maps show the positions of the brightest stars as we see them from Earth.
What are star maps?
In 1957, this animal became the first living creature to travel into space.
Who is Laika (the dog)?
This "wind" is made of particles from the Sun and causes the beautiful auroras on Earth.
What is the solar wind?
This is a sudden shaking of the ground caused by the release of energy when tectonic plates break or move along a fault.
What is an earthquake.
This is the scientist who proposed a theory in 1912 that continents were once joined and later drifted apart.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
These two factors determine which constellations you can see in the night sky.
What are your location (hemisphere) and the season of the year?
In 1961, this Soviet cosmonaut became the first human to ever orbit the Earth.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This celestial body is Earth’s only natural satellite.
What is the Moon?
These are the names of the exact places below the earth’s surface and on the earth’s surface where the earthquake begins.
What are the hypocenter and the epicenter?
This is the name of the “supercontinent” that existed on earth about 250 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
These are two ways that ancient people used constellations to help them in their daily lives.
What are navigation and as a calendar (to plant and harvest crops)?
This 1969 mission successfully carried the first astronauts to the surface of the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
Because the Moon does not have one of these to trap heat, it gets extremely hot in the sun and extremely cold in the dark.
What is an atmosphere?
This phenomenon starts with an underwater earthquake.
What is a Tsunami?
This is the name of the group of islands where a famous scientist made observations about the different adaptations in the same types of animals that led to an important theory.
What are the Galápagos Islands?