Sun
Moon
Stars
Space
vocabulary
100

The direction the sun rises.

What is east?

100

Deep, dark hole on the moon.

What are craters?

100

The reason stars look small.

What is being far away?

100

The study of outer space.

What is astronomy?

100

Bubble of air that surrounds Earth.

What is atmosphere?

200

The direction the sun sets.

What is west?

200

Direction the moon orbits around the Earth.

What is counterclockwise.

200

This makes stars look like they are blinking.

What are gases?

200

Tool used to study outer space.

What is a telescope?

200

Not a solid or liquid.

What is a gas?

300

This is what the sun is.

What is Earth's star?

300
The moon is a big, round one.

What is a rock?

300

Stars are red or blue depending on this.

What is how hot they are?

300

Scientist who study astronomy?

What is astronomer?

300

Means the same as spins.

What is rotates?

400

The sun is a ball of this.

What is gas?

400

The number of days it takes the moon to orbit Earth.

What is 27 days?

400

Building used to study stars.

What is an observatory?

400

Group of stars that form an image.

What is a constellation?

400

The path a planet follows.

What is orbit?

500

The number of Earths that would fill the sun.

What is one million?

500

The four phases of the moon.

What are new moon, crescent, half moon and full moon?

500

People often think these are shooting stars.

What are meteors?

500

Used to guide sailors like Christoper Columbus.

What is the north star?

500

Holds people and objects on Earth.

What is gravity?

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