The Moon's appearance and visible shape as it is seen at a particular time.
What is a phase?
100
The name of the four planets closest to the Sun.
What is the inner planets?
100
Stars form in a cloud of gases and dust called this.
What is a nebula?
100
On this planet you would be the youngest.
What is Neptune?
200
An object stays in orbit because of gravity and this.
What is inertia?
200
The type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.
What is solar eclipse?
200
This planet is known for its storm that it larger than Earth.
What is Jupiter?
200
The distance that light travels in a year. (9.5 trillion km)
What is a light-year?
200
Outer planets share these three main characteristics.
What is they have many moons, have rings, and are made up of gases.
300
Because of the ____ of Earth, half of the Earth's surface is in daylight an half is in darkness.
What is rotation?
300
The type of tide where high high tides and low low tides are present.
What is Spring tide?
300
Any object that circles around another object.
What is a satellite?
300
When two stars form near each other and rotate around each other.
What are binary stars?
300
Meteoroids become meteors when they do this.
What is enter Earth's atmosphere?
400
The exact number of days it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution.
What is 365.25?
400
The phases of the Moon that are present when a Neap tide is present.
What is first quarter and last quarter?
400
A mixture of frozen gases, ice, dust, and rock that moves in an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
What is a comet?
400
After a large star goes through the red giant stage is will experience one of these two stages.
What is a supernova or black hole?
400
The moon must be in this phase during a lunar eclipse.
What is a full moon?
500
This causes the Earth to experience different seasons.
What is the Earth is tilted on an axis, and it revolves around the Sun. The orbit is not an exact circle, so sometimes the Earth is further away from the Sun than other times of the year?
500
The eight phases of the Moon starting with the New Moon phase.
What is new, waxing crescent, first Quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent
500
This planet has the most number of moons. It this many.
What is Jupiter? more than 60.
500
A star in the white dwarf stage is mostly made up of this atom.
What is carbon?
500
If you are on Earth and are experiencing a partial solar eclipse, you are in this area.