The Solar System
Six of the eight planets in our solar system have at least one of these natural satellites.
What is a moon?
This is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. The sunlit side is entirely visible from Earth.
What is a full moon?
What is energy?
The basic particle from which all elements are made.
What is an atom?
The first layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth.
What is the Troposphere?
These are small, mostly rocky pieces found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
This happens when the moon's orbit is between the Earth and the sun. The moon's illuminated side is facing the sun, and from the Earth, it appears completely dark.
What is a New Moon?
The type of energy that an object has due to motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Protons, neutrons and what make up an atom.
What are electrons?
The layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
These are not in the Earth's atmosphere, are chunks of rock or dust, and are smaller than asteroids.
What are meteoroids?
The moon phase that come after the New Moon.
What is the Waxing Crescent?
Internal stored energy of an object.
What is neutral?
What is the Stratosphere?
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, the friction of the meteoroid with the air creates heat that produces a streak of light. What is this called?
What is a meteor?
What is the Waning Crescent?
A form of energy that travels through space in waves.
The electrical charge of an electron?
What is negative?
In which layer can the Aurora Borealis be found?
What is the Thermosphere?
What are meteorites?
What is the partial or total blocking of one object in space by another?
Energy stored in an atom's nucleus.
What is nuclear energy?
All elements are arranged in order of atomic number on the __________________________
What is the Periodic Table or Periodic Table of Elements?
The ISS can be found in the Exosphere layer of the atmosphere. What is the ISS?
What is International Space Station?