Vocabulary
Inner/Outer Planets
Stars
Solar System Objects
Miscellaneous
100

Proxima Centuri

What is the closest star to Earth (besides the sun) 

100

This planet is cold, blue and is known as the windiest planet.

What is Neptune?

100

A cloud of gas at the beginning of a star's life.

What is a nebula?

100
This exists past the Kuiper belt.
What is the Oort cloud?
100
A pattern or group of sars that people imagined to represent a figure of some kind.
What are constellations?
200
an object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape
What is a black hole
200

This planet has hardly any atmosphere

What is Mercury?

200

A low or medium mass star ends up as this.

What is a white dwarf and then a black dwarf

200
These are small, irregular, rocky objects that orbit the sun.
What are asteroids?
200
The imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles.
What is the axis?
300

When can we see circumpolar constellations?

All year long. Different than the zodiac or seasonal constellations

300

This planet has the moon Europa and most of its mass is similar to our sun; Hydrogen and Helium

What is Jupiter?

300

These stars are the hottest

What are blue stars

300

This forms from getting too close to the sun, and it always points away from the sun.

What is a comet's tail?

300
A system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length, and divisions of a year.
What is a calendar?
400

The distance light can travel in one minute.

What is a light minute.

400

this planet rotates the opposite direction of all other planets

What is Venus?

400

What is the name of the process that produces Electromagnetic Radiation in a star's core and How does this help life on Earth?

What is Nuclear Fusion:   We get energy for plants to grow; providing us with food.  the heat is responsible for the water cycle, We can covert solar energy into electricity with solar cells.

400
Meteoroids that pass through the atmosphere and are found on earth's surface are called these.
What is a meteorite?
400

Draw a diagram of a SOLAR eclipse.  Label Earth, Moon, Sun, and UMBRA.   Which phase of the moon does this happen in? 

Show me your answers

500

It releases more energy than a star has emitted in it's entire lifetime.

What is a supernova?

500
This planet is tilted at an angle of about 90 degrees from the vertical
What is Uranus?
500

Brightest you can see from Earth as opposed to the total amount of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the star

What is the difference between absolute magnitude (luminosity) and apparent magnitude?
500

It orbits the sun, has gravity to form a sphere but has other objects in its orbit.

What is a dwarf planet?

500
An object that orbits a planet.
What is a satellite?
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