The Sun
The Sun is a giant ball of hot glowing gas called a ___.
What is a star?
When Earth blocks sunlight from the Moon, it’s a ___.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The closest planet to the Sun is ___.
What is Mercury?
The science that studies stars and space is ___.
What is astronomy?
Galaxies are made up of large groups of stars, dust, and gas.
What is True?
The visible surface of the Sun is called the ___.
What is the photosphere?
When you can’t see the Moon from Earth, it’s the ___ phase.
What is the new moon?
The four inner planets are called the ___ planets.
What are terrestrial planets?
A refracting telescope uses a ___ to magnify images.
What is a convex lens?
Our Sun is located in the ___ Galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
The outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere is the ___.
What is the corona?
The Moon’s gravity is ___ than Earth’s gravity.
What is less?
The asteroid belt lies between which two planets?
What are Mars and Jupiter?
A reflecting telescope uses a ___ instead of a lens.
What is a mirror?
A meteor that lands on Earth is called a ___.
What is a meteorite?
Sunspots are ___ regions on the Sun’s surface.
What is cooler?
The Moon’s shadow during a solar eclipse is called the ___.
What is the umbra?
Which planet is famous for its rings?
What is Saturn?
Gamma rays have the ___ frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is the highest?
Comets travel around the Sun in ___ orbits.
What are elliptical?
The Sun makes its energy through nuclear ___.
What is fusion?
The Moon looks red or orange during a total lunar eclipse because ___.
What is Earth’s atmosphere bends sunlight?
Which four planets are called the outer planets?
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The colors of visible light can be remembered by the mnemonic ___.
What is ROYGBIV?
What keeps planets and moons in orbit around the Sun or Earth?
What is gravity?