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EARTH
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Star closest to the Earth.

What is Our Sun?

100
The Sun and all the bodies that Orbit it.
What is the Solar System.
100

An imaginary center line around which Earth rotates and is responsible for it's 23 degree tilt.

What is the Axis?

100

Name the first 4 planets in our Solar System.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

100
A huge system of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity.
What is a Galaxy.
200

the ACTUAL or "true" brightness of a star

What is the luminosity?

200
The time it takes sunlight to reach the earth.
What is 8.31 minutes.
200
The Earth's ___________ gives us day and night.
What is rotation.
200

The last 4 planets after Mars, also known as the gas-giants.

What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?

200
The distance light travels in one year.
What is a light-year.
300
How bright a star APPEARS

What is Apparent Magnitude?

300
A planet's trip around the sun.
What is an orbit.
300
it takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to make one of these around the sun.
What is an Orbit or Revolution.
300
This little guy just got demoted to dwarf planet status.
What is Pluto.
300

Any naturally occurring item in the universe.

What is a celestial object?

400
A point in space that has such a strong force of gravity that nothing within a certain distance of it can escape.
What is a BLACK HOLE.
400

The size of our sun is described as_______.

What is a medium star?

400
The natural Satellite that orbits the earth.
What is the Moon.
400

This planet is our neighbor and is also known as the "Red" planet.

What is MARS?

400

The recent discovery of a starless, gas-filled area about 14 million light-years away which proves the existence of a "failed" galaxy.

What is Cloud-9?

500
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a CONSTELLATION.
500
The center of our solar system is
What is the sun.
500
Earth is the ________ planet from the Sun.
What is the 3rd.
500
This planet is famous for its many rings.
What is Saturn.
500

The force responsible for "holding together" our universe. It is also the force that pulls us towards Earth's center.

What is gravity?

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