These are groups of stars named by ancient astronomers.
What are constellations?
100
This is a group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
100
This is a small object orbiting a larger one. There are many of these that are electronic and man-made that orbit the Earth.
What is a satellite?
100
A large storm that forms over the ocean
What is a hurricane?
100
This shows how living things get their food. It usually starts with plant life and ends with animal life.
What is a food chain?
200
This is a large rock in outer space.
What is an asteroid?
200
This is a small, frozen mass of dust revolving around the sun.
What is a comet?
200
This is when an object spins on its own axis.
What is a rotation?
200
This is a funnel-like storm of strong winds.
What is a tornado?
200
Most animals have more than one food source and are therefore part of more than one food chain. These interconnected food chains form this.
What is a food web?
300
The sun is this size, relative to other stars in outer space.
What is medium sized?
300
These are the three colors that stars can be.
What are blue, red, and yellow?
300
This is when an object moves circularly around another object, like the way the Moon circles the Earth.
What is a revolution?
300
This is the amount of moisture in the air compared to the amount of water that the air can hold.
What is relative humidity?
300
Plants use other types of energy to produce their food, so they are called this.
What is a producer?
400
These are the four inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, and Mars?
400
This is any small object in outer space, like dust or a rock
What is a meteoroid?
400
This is any of the natural objects that can be seen in our sky, like stars, planets, moons, asteroids, galaxies, and comets.
What is a celestial object?
400
An instrument used to measure the water vapor or relative humidity in the air. It uses two thermometers, one that has a wet bulb and one with a dry bulb.
What is a psychrometer?
400
Animals cannot make their own food. They eat plants or other animals, so they are called this.
What is a consumer?
500
These are the four outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
500
This is a shooting star, it is seen when a particle of dust enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
500
These are two examples of constellations
What are the Big Dipper and Orion?
500
This is a boundary or space separating two masses of air of different densities.
What is a front?
500
This is a special role that an organism has in its ecosystem.