The Moon
Celestial Bodies
Birth of The Solar System
Motion of Objects Around the Sun
Seasons and Tides
100
A natural satellite of a planet.
What is the moon.
100
The most massive object in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
100
The celestial body found at the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
100
One _____________ around the sun depends on how far the planet is from the sun.
What is revolution?
100
This would not occur if the Earth was not tilted on its axis.
What are seasons?
200
The period of time between full moons, and it's length in days.
What is a Lunar Month - 29.5 days
200
The terrestrial planets in order of distance from the sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
200
The sun's life began this long ago.
What is 4.5 billion years?
200
As astronomer records the moon's phases each night for a week. It changes from a third quarter moon to a crescent.
What is waning?
200
The longest day of the year in the summer.
What is the summer solstice?
300
A phenomenon where the Sun's light is blocked by the moon.
What is a solar eclipse?
300
A small space rock, found mainly between Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?
300
A spinning cloud of dust and gas floating out in space.
What is a nebula?
300
The amount of time it takes the moon to orbit Earth once.
What is a sidereal month?
300
During the 1st and 3rd quarter moons this tide sees the smallest difference between high and low tides.
What is a neap tide?
400
The term for the pull of an object based on its size and the distance it is away from another object.
What is gravity.
400
A space object that has impacted the Earth.
What is a meteorite?
400
Our sun is the only one of these in our solar system.
What is a star?
400
A curved path around a star
What is an orbit?
400
The type of tide that is created when the Full or New moon, the Earth, and the Sun are in a straight line. (hint: highest highs and lowest lows)
What is a spring tide?
500
The phase in which the entire face of the moon is visible in the sky.
What is a full moon.
500
The three defining criteria for a celestial body to be considered a planet.
What are 1) must orbit a star, 2) be spherical in shape, and 3) clear it's orbital path.
500
As our solar system formed, the cloud of dust was pulled together by ______ while it was rotating around the _____.
What is 1) gravity, 2) sun?
500
A large object in space that can clear its own orbit.
What is a planet?
500
The days on which daytime and nighttime are equal.
What is an equinox?
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