Galaxies of the Universe
A system of millions to billions of stars, dust, and gas clouds.
What is a galaxy?
A large sphere of super hot plasma that is able to give off light.
What is a star?
Planet with the largest volcano, also currently home to the Perseverance Rover.
What is Mars?
This is the moon phase that allows a lunar eclipse to occur.
This is made of rock and ice and orbits the sun.
What is a comet?
This is the force of attraction between one object of mass and another object of mass.
What is Gravity?
This season occurs in the US when the Northern Hemisphere is pointed towards the Sun.
What is summer?
This outer planet is the largest and has a great red spot that is actually a storm.
What is Jupiter?
This is where stars are born.
What is a nebula?
The super-bright explosion of a dying massive star.
What is a supernova?
The smallest planet.
What is Mercury?
Because of its distance from the Earth, the Moon has a greater affect on this than the Sun.
What are Tides?
This is what we call a meteor that gets burned up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is a shooting star?
As distance increases, gravitational force does this.
What is decreases?
This is what happens to the number of daylight hours as we move from winter to spring.
What is increases?
This is an ice giant that is blue green.
What is Uranus?
This is the distance that light can travel in one year.
What is a light year?
This is the process that happens in the core and creates the energy for the sun.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
The planet that provides oxygen and water.
What is Earth?
The waxing portion means that the moon is _____ on the ____.
What is growing on the right?
This is a massive chunk of rock that orbits the sun.
What is an asteroid?
As mass increases, gravitational force does this.
What is increases?
This is the name of the Tropic over which the Sun lies during the Summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
This planet has rings and a storm called the Great Dark Spot ( although it is no longer there)
What is Neptune?
Scientists believe that through indirect observation of the Kuiper Belt and math models there is the existence of this.
What is a ninth planet?
In the sun, as in most stars, this element fuses together to make this new element.
What are Hydrogen and Helium?
Name one of the characteristics of an inner planet.
What is terrestrial, rocky, smaller, or more dense?
The waning moon phase means that the moon is ____ on the _____.
What is shrinking on the left?
This is what scientists believe caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
What is an asteroid?
This is the force that causes objects to be shaped like a sphere.
What is Gravity?
This is the name of the two days each year where the number of daylight hours and nighttime hours are exactly the same.
What is an equinox?
This planet has the most rings.
What is Saturn?
Galaxies are categorized by shape and fall into one of these three shapes.
What are Spiral, Elliptical, and Irregular.
These cause magnetic disruptions on Earth, and occur when prominences link on the surface of the Sun.
What are solar flares?
This "twin" planet to Earth has the weakest magnetic field.
What is Venus?
During a solar eclipse, this is the arrangement of the Earth, Sun and Moon.
What is E, M, S or S, M, E?
Some comets have long periods lasting up to thousands of years and usually come from the outer most region of our galaxy called this.
What is the Oort Cloud?
This property of any "body" changes as you move from one planet to another.
What is weight?
This is the name of the two days of each year where the number of daylight and nighttime hours have the biggest difference.
What is a solstice?
Name one of the features of outer planets.
What is gaseous, longer revolutionary periods, less dense, or larger?