Starlight, Star Bright
Our Solar System
Telescopes
Distances in Space
Tides
100
This is a tool you can use to analyze light.
What is a spectroscope?
100
This planet is a gas giant.
What is Jupiter?
100
This part of a telescope bends light.
What is a lens?
100
This is the unit measure best for measuring the distance between the planets.
What is an astronomical unit?
100
These two objects cause the tides.
What are the sun and moon?
200
This is a star at the center of a system of planets.
What is a sun?
200
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
200
This part of a telescope bounces light.
What is a mirror?
200
This is the best unit of measure for measuring distances on earth.
What is a kilometer?
200
This is a bulge in water caused by the gravity of the sun and moon.
What is a high tide?
300
This part of the sun surrounds its surface. It is made up of very hot glowing gas.
What is the corona?
300
This is the shape of our planet's orbit.
What is elliptical?
300
This word means to bounce light.
What is reflection?
300
This is the best unit to measure the distances between Earth and the stars.
What is a light-year?
300
This is a drop in water level caused by the sun and moon.
What is low tide?
400
This what the center of the sun is called.
What is the core?
400
This was at the center of Ptolemy's model of the solar system.
What is Earth?
400
This word means to bend light.
What is refraction?
400
This is 9,500,000,000,000 km
What is a light-year?
400
This is the highest of high tides caused when the sun and moon are in line with the earth.
What is a spring tide?
500
The hottest stars are this color.
What is blue-white?
500
This is a ball of ice, dust, and gases that revolves around the sun.
What is a comet?
500
This causes telescopes on earth to have blurry images.
What is the atmosphere?
500
This is the closest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
500
This is the lowest of low tides. It occurs when the sun and moon are at right angles.
What is a neap tide?
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