What is the name of Earth's largest natural satellite?
What is the moon
100
Name the planets, in order.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. No Pluto!
100
Explain how a lunar eclipse happens.
What is the shadow of the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon's surface.
100
Does the term "Gas Giant" refer to a type of star?
What is No. They refer to a type of planet.
100
How old is the sun?
What is about 4.5 billion years old
200
What effect does the moon have on our water ways?
What is causes the tides by pulling the water with its gravitational pull.
200
geocentric vs. heliocentric model of our solar system?
What is geocentric - Earth is the centre, all planets revolve around the Earth. Heliocentric - the sun is the centre, all planets revolve around the sun.
200
What is the difference between a comet and a meteor?
What is a comet is made of ice and has a larger orbit.
200
Give the name of the stars that are cool and bright.
What is supergiants.
200
Name the process that emits such heat and light in our sun.
What is nuclear or hydrogen fusion.
300
The Earth is 1 AU from the sun. What does this mean?
What is the common unit that refers to the distance of the Earth to the sun. This is used as a base for other distances to planets (e.g. Mars is 1.5 AU )
300
Which planet has the highest surface temperature (480 degrees)
What is Venus.
300
What is the region where shadow of an object is partial?
What is penumbra.
300
What is the name for the birthplace of stars, and what is it made out of?
What is a nebula and its made of clouds of gas a dust.
300
What is the solar wind?
What is the heat from the sun pushes ions outwards at 500 km/hr
400
Which planet is similar to Earth in terms of size?
What is Venus
400
Which planet has a dark red spot, and what is the spot?
What is Jupiter, and it is a storm that has been going on for thousands of years.
400
Compare meteor, meteorite, meteoroid.
What is meteoroid - the general term for dust and rock fragments. Meteor - a meteoroid that burns in the Earth's atmosphere. Meteorite - a meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface.
400
How does the size of a nebula affect the size and life length of the star?
What is the smaller the nebula, the smaller the star, the longer the life.
400
What is the outer most layer of the sun called?
What is the corona! Not cornea.
500
Why do we have seasons.
What is because of the Earth's tilt, there are period of time where the different hemispheres face towards and away from the sun.
500
What is the solar plane?
What is a horizontal line where all the planets lie as they orbit.
500
What is the difference between a constellation and a asterism?
What is constellation - recognized group, asterism - distinctive pattern, unoffical
500
How are neutron stars formed, and what are they made of?
What is one death route of a supernova, and they are made out of neutrons.