Solar System 1
Name the two gases that make up the Sun.
Hydrogen (70%) and Helium (30%)
What is the name of our galaxy and what type of galaxy is it?
The Milky Way and a spiral galaxy
What are made up of gas and dust and are known as star nurseries?
What are nebulae
This constellation is visible in the night sky during winter in the Northern Hemisphere and is named after a hunter in Greek mythology.
What is Orion.
This force is defined as the attractive force between two masses that draws objects toward the center of the larger body.
What is gravity
The region between Mars and Jupiter where huge chunks of irregularly shaped rocks are mostly located.
What is the asteroid belt
The illuminated shape of the Moon visible from Earth is called this, and it repeats about once a month.
What is a moon phase.
Which object has the most gravity in our solar system?
The Sun because it has the most mass in our solar system.
This is the imaginary line of latitude located at 0 degrees that divides Earth into two equal hemispheres.
The equator
The Moon’s gravitational pulls on the ocean water, causing these to rise and fall.
What are tides
The light we see coming from the Moon is actually light reflected from this object, as the Moon does not make its own light.
What is the Sun.
This gas giant is the largest planet in the solar system and is made mostly of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, methane, and water vapor.
What is Jupiter
What type of star is the Sun?
The sun is medium sized main sequence yellow dwarf star.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system that supports life. What two conditions make Earth habitable?
The presence of water and the distance from the Sun.
What natural satellite controls the tides, stabilizes Earth on its axis, and stabilizes our climate?
What is the moon
What causes day or night on Earth?
Earth's rotation
Several days after a new moon, we see the moon as a thin sliver of light.
This is called a waxing crescent.
Name the two circumpolar constellations.
The Little Dipper and The Southern Cross beccause they can be seen all year long.
When light travels in a straight line from Sun the Earth.
What is solar radiation
This feature of Earth, is tilted at 23.5 and is the primary cause of seasons and temperature variations.
Earth's Axis
How far from the Sun is the Earth?
150 million kilometers or approximately 93 million miles away
Name the 8 planets in our solar system starting from the farthest planet from the Sun.
Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury
What color do stars burn that are the hottest?
They give off a bluer and brighter light.
What moon phase is after a full moon has occured?
A waning gibbous
These constellations, such as Leo, Virgo, and Scorpius, disappear from view and become visible during specific parts of the year as Earth orbits the Sun are known as what?
What are seasonal constellations