The Moon
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The Planets
Solar System
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100
The moon is said to be doing this as it moves from a new moon towards the full moon. It means increasing.
What is waxing?
100
The time it takes the earth to complete one revolution.
What is one year?
100
This planet is sometimes called Earth's sister because of its similar size.
What is Venus?
100
The force that makes objects keep traveling in a straight line.
What is inertia?
100
Explains why there is night & day.
What is the Earth rotating on its axis?
200
Natural (such as the moon) and artificial objects that orbit a planet.
What is a satellite?
200
The number of miles the sun is from the Earth.
What is @ 93 million miles?
200
A large object (bigger than a moon) that orbits a star but does not give off its own light.
What is a planet?
200
This is the location of the asteroid belt in our solar system.
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
200
The seasons are caused by these 2 things.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis and the Earth's revolution around the sun?
300
This is caused by rocks striking the moon; its surface is full of these.
What are craters?
300
Percentage of the moon one can see during a New Moon phase.
What is 0%?
300
Name of the terrestrial planet that is closest to the sun and is very rocky.
What is Mercury?
300
This is a collection of billions and billions of stars that our Sun belongs to.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
300
This is affected by total mass (oomph) of an object times the distance between (zoom) the objects. Oomph X zoom=kaboom
What is gravity?
400
This happens when the moon moves into the Earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
The number of days it takes the moon to make a complete revolution around the earth.
What is @ 27 days?
400
The Great Red Spot is on this planet.
What is Jupiter?
400
This kind of telescope uses lenses or mirrors to see objects in our solar system.
What is an optical telescope?
400
The season when the Northern hemisphere of the Earth is tilted towards the sun.
What is summer?
500
These tides occur during the first and last quarter moon phase.
What are neap tides?
500
The amount of time it takes light from the sun to reach the earth.
What is 8 minutes?
500
Saturn is one of these giants.
What is a gas giant?
500
The sun is a star composed of mainly these 2 elements.
What are hydrogen and helium?
500
These 2 things keep the planets in their orbit around the sun.
What is gravity and inertia?
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