The Universe
The largest known place in our universe.
What is a Local Supercluster?
The direction everything around Earth appears to rise and set in.
What is rise in the east and set in the west?
The reason we see the phases of the moon.
What is the Moon's orbit around Earth?
Kepler's 1st law of planetary motion.
What is the path of the planets around the sun with the center of the sun as the focus? (Law of Ellipses)
Newton's 1st law of motion.
What is the law of inertia? An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion.
The size of Earth on a scale of 1-10 billion.
What is Earth is the size of a ballpoint?
The stars that never set.
What are stars near the North Celestial Pole?
The amount of the moon that is always illuminated and what it's by.
What is half of the Moon and the Sun?
Kepler's 2nd law of planetary motion.
What is an imaginary line drawn from the center of the sun to the center of the planet that will sweep out equal areas in equal intervals of time? (Law of Equal Areas)
Newton's 2nd law of motion.
What is motion changed by unbalanced forces?
The galaxy that Earth is in.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The reason stars rise and set.
What is Earth's rotation?
The cause of Lunar eclipses and Solar eclipses.
What is the Earth's shadow on the Moon (lunar) and the Moon's shadow on Earth (solar)?
Kepler's 3rd law of planetary motion.
What is the ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the Sun? (Law of Harmonies)
Newton's 3rd law of motion.
What is whatever is pushed pushes back, and for every force there is an equal and opposite force?
The number of galaxies that the observable universe contains.
What is over 100 billion galaxies?
The number of constellations in the sky.
What are the 88 constellations?
The number of eclipses that occur during each year.
What is two periods each year?
Netwon's formula for the universal law of gravitation.
What is F = G x m1m2/r^2, where F= gravitational force between two objects and G= universal gravitational constant?
The formula for momentum.
What is mass x velocity or P=mv?
What is 3000 years at a rate of one per second?
The number of stars we can see in the Milky Way with our naked eye.
What are 2000 stars?
The things that change the Moon's appearance to us on Earth.
What are the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth?
The way that motion is described and its formula.
What is speed: the rate at which an object moves, and the formula is speed= distance/time (units of m/s)?
The contents of a giant dust bunny.
What is a lot of gas, rocks, and dust?