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Solar System
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100

What is the fifth planet from the sun?

Jupiter, the gas giant.

100

What does a compass measure? 

Azimuth. 

100

Who discovered Newton's Law of motion?

Issac Newton.

100

What is the shape of the earth's orbit around the sun?

Ellipse.

100

What do you call a group of stars that make a constant pattern?

Constellation.

200

What are inner planets? Which planets are inner planets?

The first four planets closest to the sun. (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars)

200

Who invented the first telescope?

Hans Lipperhey.

200

Who's running the project to Mars?

Elon Musk.

200

Everything in the universe is under the influence of the sun's ___ and ______ pull.

1. Heat.

2. Gravitational.

200

What is white light made up of?

All the colors of the spectrum. (ROY G BIV)

300

Some regions on the sun are cooler and appear to be darker than their surroundings. What are these called?

Sunspots.

300

Name two possible lenses a telescope could have. 

Ocular, objective, eyepiece, convex, concave.

300

Who was the first Canadian in space?

Marc Geneau

300

What's the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse?

Lunar - the earth is between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to be in the Earth's shadow.

Solar - the moon is between the earth and the sun, causing the shadow of the moon to fall on the Earth.

300

What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?

Meteor = meteoroid that burns up after colliding with Earth's atmosphere.

Meteorite = a meteor that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground.

400

Why is pluto no longer a planet? What's it called now?

It's orbit was inconsistent. It's now called a dwarf planet.

400

What kind of telescope of a dioptric telescope?

Refracting telescope.

400

Who was the first woman in space? Where was she from? 

Valentina Tereshkova. From Russia. 

400

What is a nebula?

A giant cloud of dust and gas from explosions of a dying star. 

400

Why is space black?

There's no atmosphere to scatter light.

500

What factors create an elliptical orbit?

The force of gravity and the object's desire to move in a straight line.

500

What is a catadioptric optical system?

A system where refraction and reflection are combined in an optical system.

500

Who proposed the heliocentric model in the 1500s?

Nicholas Copernicus.

500

Define a neutron star.

A tiny, super-dense, compressed ball of mass star left after a giant star explodes.

500

What year did Hans invent the telescope?

1608

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