Galaxies
Small Bodies
Earth
Seasons
Wild Card
100
This galaxy has a center bulge and arms.
What is a spiral galaxy?
100
The Asteroid Belt is located between the planets of _______ and ________.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
100
The Earth does this on its axis.
What is rotate?
100
This is what the Earth's axis always points toward.
What is the North Star?
100
This is made of stars, gas, and dust.
What is a galaxy?
200
This galaxy is oblong in shape and consists of mainly old stars.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
200
This is where short period comets are found.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
200
This is the movement of Earth that causes seasons.
What is revolution?
200
The Northern Hemisphere has this season when Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun.
What is summer?
200
This is the name of the theory on the formation of the universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
300
This galaxy is formed by galaxies colliding.
What is an irregular galaxy?
300
This is where long period comets are found.
What is the Oort Cloud?
300
This is caused by the Earth rotating on its axis.
What is day and night?
300
The seasons in the Northern Hemisphere are always this in comparison to the Southern Hemisphere.
What is opposite?
300
This is how many days are in a lunar cycle.
What is 29.5 days?
400
This is the name of our Galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
400
This is the shape of a comet's orbit.
What is an ellipse?
400
This is the degree that the Earth's axis is tilted on its axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
400
This word means "equal day".
What is equinox?
400
The Southern Hemisphere is experiencing this season when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
What is summer?
500
This is the measurement scientists use to measure the distances between galaxies.
What is a light-year?
500
This is caused when Earth passes through a trail of debris left from a comet.
What is a meteor shower?
500
We have this because the Earth takes 365 1/4 days to revolve.
What is a Leap Year?
500
Spring and Fall have similar weather and day length because the most direct sunlight is hitting this spot.
What is the equator?
500
This is the streak of light we see as a meteoroid passes through Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
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