Gravity Well
A larger mass will cause the gravitational force to ________.
What is Increase?
This is the term used to describe the orbit of the planets, as outlined in Kepler's 1st Law.
What is Elliptical?
What is the shape of most micrometeorites?
What is Round?
What is the name for the line that separates day and night while Earth is rotating?
What is Terminator?
What is the name for when less than half the Moon is illuminated?
What is Crescent?
What happens to the speed of an object as it approaches a larger mass?
What is Speed Increases?
What happens to the period of revolution the farther out from the Solar System you go?
What is Increases?
If mass stays the same, but the volume of the object increases, what happens to the density?
What is Density Decreases?
What is the name for the imaginary point in the sky located directly above a particular observer or location?
What is Zenith?
The term for the Moon's illumination INCREASING is known as _________.
What is Waxing?
What factor causes the Moon to orbit the Earth, rather than orbit the Sun?
What is Distance?
What is it called when the Earth is the closest distance to the Sun?
What is Perihelion?
What happens to the density of a planet's layers the close to the center you go?
What is Density Increases?
Earth rotates from ______ to ______. (give directions either N, E, S, W)
What is West to East?
When the Moon is positioned at ________ during the 1st or 3rd quarter phase, the tidal range will be the least.
What is apogee?
There are 5 dimensions. The first 3 are length, width, and height. The 4th is time. What is the 5th dimension?
What is Gravity?
In the equation a3 = T2 (Kepler's 3rd Law) what does "a" represent?
What is a planetary object's distance from the Sun?
What is the difference between a meteorite and meteoroid?
What is Meteorite is on surface / Meteoroid is still in space?
If the sunrise occurred at 5:00 a.m. and sunset at 7:30 p.m., what month would this likely be?
What is June?
Which two phases of the Moon would result in a Spring Tide?
What is New Moon and Full Moon?
Several smaller objects moving through a gravity well may collide and gradually collect together into a larger object. What is the name of this process that helped form planets and other bodies in the early solar system?
What is Accretion?
In the equation v = (V×R) / r
what does "R" represent? (this is Kepler's 2nd Law)
What is the orbital radius? (of one of the planets)
Where is the Asteroid Belt located in the Solar System?
What is Between Mars & Jupiter?
What is the length of a sidereal day? (provide hours, minutes, and seconds)
What is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds?
What is the length of time of one synodic cycle of the Moon?
What is 29.5 days?