the Sun
The sun is a great glowing mass of these super hot gases.
What is hydrogen and helium?
A grouping of stars that forms a recognizable pattern sometimes named after an animal.
What is constellation?
When the moon travels through the earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8?
This unique mixture of invisible gases or "air" that surrounds earth and allows us to live here.
What is the atmosphere.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
The innermost section of the sun.
What is the core.
The Big Dipper is not a constellation itself but part of this constellation.
What is the Great Bear (Ursa Major)?
When the moon is hidden or not seen marking the beginning of a new lunar month.
What is a new moon?
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
What are the 4 inner planets?
This causes air molecules to move more quickly and push apart (or expand) taking up more space.
The Mesosphere protects our planet from these falling space rocks or shooting stars.
What are meteoroids?
The surface layer of the sun.
What is the photosphere?
The actual name of the North Star.
What is Polaris?
New moon, crescent, quarter, gibbous, full moon.
What are the phases of the moon?
The 4 outer planets.
What are the gas planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This causes air molecules to move more slowly and huddle closer together (or contract) taking up less space.
What is cooling?
Similar to the sun, the earth has this protective field around it with poles located at the north and south.
What is magnetic field?
Dark spots that often appear on the surface of the sun.
What are sunspots?
The constellation mentioned in the Bible.
What is Orion?
On the large plain called the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 astronauts first set foot on the moon in this year.
What is 1969?
The largest planet in our solar system with powerful thunderstorms and the Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
The atmosphere is made up mostly of these two gases.
What is Nitrogen and Oxygen?
Made of subatomic particles from the sun.
What is solar wind?
The fiery atmosphere of the sun that surrounds the photosphere and causes giants out bursts of gas.
What is the chromosphere?
The most famous constellation of the Southern Hemisphere whose upright bar points almost directly toward the south.
What is the Southern Cross?
The moon's plains are called this because people once thought they were large bodies of water.
What are lunar seas or maria?
The ringed planet with a moon larger than Mercury.
What is Saturn?
The total weight of air on some particular place on earth. This gradually decreases as you go higher.
What is air pressure?
An oxygen molecule with an extra atom in it that soaks up most of the ultraviolet rays coming into the atmosphere.
What is ozone?
The vapor blanket of the sun with an estimated temperature of 1,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is the corona?
The name of this "twin" constellation seen between December and May, looks like two brothers holding hands. The heads of the two boys are the bright stars Castor and Pollux.
What is Gemini?
When the moon passes directly in front of the sun and blocks out the sun's light for a short time.
What is a solar eclipse?
This "red planet" is where the unmanned Viking I and Viking II spacecrafts landed and conducted scientific exploration.
What is Mars?
Besides gas molecules, all air contains.....
What is dust, salt, and water vapor?
Light caused by the Earth's magnetic field and solar winds. Usually seen at the North or South poles.
What is an aurora?