Earth Facts
What is the Diameter of the Earth? (Equator)
What is 12,756 KM
When did the Universe begin, and what do scientists refer to it as?
What is the Big Bang Theory: 13.7 Billion years ago
Name 2 types of stars clusters.
What are Globular and Open star clusters?
Which galaxy contains mostly dust, gas, and young stars?
What are irregular galaxies?
What are our planet's four main systems? Hint: Think Avatar
What is Water, Air, Fire, and Earth
Name the 2 atoms that were formed in the early universe that is still almost the same today.
What is Hydrogen (75%) and Helium (25%)?
True or False: Some stars can be bigger than other planets throughout our galaxy.
What is True?
Which galaxy is know to be 100,000 light years across?
What is the Milky Way?
What is Geology?
What is the study of the Earth?
What was formed 200-400 million years after the Big Bang?
What are stars and galaxies?
Name the 5 characteristics needed to classify a star.
What is Color, temperature, size, brightness, composition?
Name the 2 types of spiral galaxies.
What are normal and barred galaxies?
Which 'sphere' includes lakes, rivers, glaciers, ground water, and rain?
What is the Hydrosphere?
In 1927, Hubble, discovered what kind of shift of distant galaxies?
What is the Red Shift?
Which star is closest to Earth?
What is the Sun?
What type of galaxy is considered football or egg shaped, and has almost not dust or gas between stars?
What is the Elliptical galaxy?
How far is the Earth away from the Sun?
What is 149,600,000 KM?
Which 2 scientists discovered the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Radiation in 1964?
Who are Penzias and Wilson?
Which star cluster may contain more than a million stars?
What is a globular cluster?
How far is 1 light-year in miles?
What is 5.88 Trillion miles?