Bright Lights
Galactic Galaxies
Satellites
The Universe
Random Thoughts
100
What is a hot ball of gases
a star
100
What is the name of our galaxy?
The Milky Way
100
This is our only natural satellite.
What is the moon.
100
What is everything in space and the space between those things?
What is the universe.
100
The largest space rocks
What is an asteroid
200
What is the name of our star?
The sun
200
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
What is a spiral galaxy
200
What are the rise and fall of the ocean caused by the moon's gravity?
What is the tides
200
The time it takes a planet to rotate on its axis once.
What is rotation.
200
What are small bits of rock that enter the earth's atmosphere (shooting stars)
What are meteors
300
What is the sun, planets (& their moons), asteroids, and comets?
Solar System
300
These are the three types of galaxies.
What are elliptical, spiral, and barred spiral.
300
What is a round, rocky or gaseous body which orbits a star?
What is a planet.
300
He thought the earth was the center of the universe.
Who was Ptolemy
300
A chunk of ice, dust, and rock which orbits the sun and has a tail
What is a comet
400
What is a grouping of stars that makes a picture?
Constellation
400
This is a piece of equipment used to see far into space.
What is a telescope.
400
The planet's path around the sun.
What is an orbit.
400
The time it takes a planet to orbit the sun.
What is a revolution.
400
The order of this type of eclipse: sun - moon - earth
What is a solar eclipse
500
What is a group of stars attracted to each other by gravity?
Galaxy
500
This is the name of the famous telescope that is in space.
What is the Hubble Telescope.
500
What is the pull one object has on another, keeps objects from floating away.
What is gravity.
500
He thought the sun was the center of the universe.
Who was Copernicus
500
What two things do we get from the sun?
What are heat and light.
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