Sun and Seasons
Solar System
The Moon
Stars
Pot Luck
100
This causes day and night on Earth.
What is the rotation of Earth about its axis?
100
The order of the planets from small to large.
What is Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter.
100
What lunar phase is it when the right side of the moon is exactly half full? 
What is a first quarter moon?
100
The colour that represents the hottest star.
What is the colour blue?
100
This star never appears to move.
What is Polaris (the north star)?
200
This is where the sun hits the Earth most directly.
What is the equator?
200
Explain the difference between a comet, asteroid, meteoroid, meteor and meteorite.
What is:
1. Comet - ball of dust and ice with a tail melting behind it
2. Asteroid - big space rock
3. Meteoroid - small space rock
4. meteor - entering Earth's atmosphere and burning up (think shooting star)
5. meteorite - a meteor that is big enough to land on Earth's surface.
200
This is the main cause of tides.
What is the gravitational pull of the Moon?
200
The force that pushes outward on stars.
What is fusion?
200
The day when Earth experiences equal hours of day and night.
What is the equinox?
300
The season that people in British Columbia experience when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
300
Most of the shooting stars come from here.
What is the asteroid belt?
300
The moon phase during a Solar Eclipse?
What is a new moon?
300
This determines the life cycle of a star.
What is a star's mass?
300
The 12 constellations that lie on the ecliptic.
What is the Zodiac.
400
These two factors are what cause the seasons on Earth.
What is the Earth's tilt at 23.5 degrees and the Earth's revolution around the sun?
400
The plane all planets orbit the Sun on.
What is the ecliptic plane?
400
This occurs twice a month during a full moon and a new moon.
What is a spring tide?
400
This is how helium is produced.
What is the fusion of hydrogen?
400
The great winter constellation.
Who is Orion?
500
The reason Antarctica can experience 24 hours of sun in the summer but still be cold.
What is very low angle of sunlight?
500
Sometimes planets appear to "move backwards" along the night sky.
What is retrograde motion.
500
This occurs when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, blocking sunlight from Earth in what we see as a New Moon.
What is a solar eclipse?
500
A measure of the brightness of a star based on luminosity and distance.
What is apparent magnitude?
500
In 1054, Chinese astronomers noticed a bright, abnormal object in space. It was visible by the naked eye during the day.
What is a supernova? (The one the Chinese saw was the Crab Nebula)