Earth Stuff
Star Stuff
Space Stuff
Images
Star Types
Misc. Vocab
100
The Earth spins on this tilted, imaginary line called...
axis/axial tilt
100
Ursa Major, Orion, Sagittarius, Libra, Draco, Canis Major, Libra...
These are all examples of...
constellations
100
300,000 kilometers per second
speed of light
100
Point to a moon that does not have hydrostatic equilibrium...
100
Stars are born in these gigantic clouds of dust and gases...
nebulae
100
This word means 'made of'...
composition
200
A year or orbit around the sun...
revolution
200
Billions of stars, solar systems, gases, and stuff grouped together by gravity.
The Milky Way is ours...
galaxy
200
The moon, Mars, the sun, Venus...
(nobody discovered them...they've always been visible from Earth, as far back as history goes...)
K.F.A. - 100
Known from Antiquity - 200
200
The first and only image of this was taken in 2019...
a black hole (M87)
200
Our sun is this type of star...
main sequence star
200
An ancient word that means space/universe
DAILY DOUBLE
cosmos
300
a day or spin...
rotation
300
a word meaning the brightness of stars...
magnitude or luminosity
300
A word meaning 'sun at the center'
DAILY DOUBLE
heliocentric
300
Neptune was discovered by Frenchman, Urbain LeVerrier, in 1846. for this reason, Neptune is not....
K.F.A.
300
Our sun will end this way. It will eventually lose its energy and become a...
white, brown, or black dwarf star
300
An adjective used to describe anything in space...
celestial
400
The point directly above you in the sky...
zenith
400
Possible endings for super/hyper giant stars (name one...)
pulsar, neutron star, magnetar, black hole, another nebula
400
A star with much more mass than our sun would be considered a...
super or hyper giant star
400
This image shows how three different planets are tilted on their....
axis
400
Our sun will swell into one of these later in its life...
Red Giant Star
400
A word meaning 'Earth at the center'...
geocentric
500
Why is it that we can only see about 36 of the 88 total constellations in the night sky?
We can't see constellations in the Southern Hemisphere, because we are located in the Northern Hemisphere.
500
A hypergiant could collapse in on itself at the end of its life creating a...
black hole
500
A super condensed remnant of a former super/hypergiant star - a spoonful of which could contain more mass than the entire Earth....
neutron star/pulsar/magnetar
500
This ancient image shows what people once believed long ago about the Earth's position in space. What science word does this image depict?
geocentric
500
Baby stars...
protostar or T-Tauri
500
When an object has enough mass to pull itself into a spherical shape...
hydrostatic equilibrium