Stars
The closest star to Earth
What is the sun?
The number of planets that orbit our sun.
What is 8? (Sometimes 9!)
Gravity always pulls in this direction.
What is down?
Shadows are not reflections, they are this.
What is the absence of light?
A satellite of Earth.
What is the moon?
These are main gasses the make up stars.
What are hydrogen & helium?
The closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
Objects with more gravity have more of this.
What is mass?
When shadows are shortest.
What is noon (12:00pm)?
A "dirty snowball" that moves in a known path around the solar system.
What is a comet?
Blue stars.
What are the hottest stars?
The largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
The pull of gravity weakens the ________ away an object is.
What is further?
When shadows are longest.
What is sunrise & sunset?
Sorry - no such thing as falling stars. They're really this.
What are meteors (or meteoroids)?
A system of planets that orbit around a star.
What is a solar system?
What the inner & outer planets are made out of.
What are land & gas?
Objects in space experience some form of gravity known as this.
What is microgravity?
This instrument uses shadows to tell time.
What is a sundial?
A spacecraft that takes a one-way journey.
What is a probe?
A pattern of stars.
What is a constellation?
The amount of time it takes a planet to make one complete orbit of the sun.
What is a year?
What is inertia?
When one space objects blocks the light from another.
What is an eclipse?
The name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?