The Starry Heavens
The Science of Stars and Planets
What is Astronomy?
The five colors of the stars are: white, ____________, yellow, orange and red
What is blue-white?
Bonus points if you can tell me what the color of the star depends on
Constellations are groups of stars that people saw _____________ of these people or things.
What are pictures?
The name of our galaxy consisting of the sun and its nine planets.
What is the Milky Way?
The sun is the closest of these to the earth. It is about 93 million miles from the earth
What is the sun?
The solar system is made up of this number of planets
What is 8?
Name Them:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Comets Have a Head and a ______
What is a tail?
What are meteors?
These are also called minor planets
What are asteroids?
People who study astronomy
What are astronomers?
The name of the nearest to the earth after the sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
The way the planets move along a path in the heavens is ________; the p,antes all move along the same plane, as if they were on a flat or level “surface”
What is ecliptic?
the distance between galaxies
What are billions of miles?
The number of Earths that could fit into the sun
What is a million?
Venus, Mars, Mercury and Earth are made up of
What is rock?
Comets are like planets in that they do this with the sun.
What is orbit?
Meteor showers are named after this
What is the constellation from which it is seen?
Asteroids are normally found in the orbit between these two planets- also called the asteroid belt
What are Mars and Jupiter?
The name of the 7 stars that appear like a huge soup ladle
What is the Big Dipper?
Name of the Catholic Scientist that helped to explain the way the heavens look
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The name of the biggest constellation
What is Orion?
The name of a constellation
* Big Dipper
*North Star
* Cassiopeia
*Andromeda
*Pegasus
As the temperature rises, solids melt into liquids, the liquids evaporate into
What are gases
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are giant planets made up of mostly ______.
What is gas?
but they have a small core of rock and ice.
Comets are different than planet in that…
What is we only see them once in many years.
Once meteors enter the Earth’s atmosphere, this in the air causes them to become white hot and glow.
What is friction?
Asteroids orbit __________ the solar system.
What is crisscross?
Huge group of stars that form several clusters is called
What is a Constellation?
The Planets and Moon shine because they reflect the Light of the ________; the stars shine because they produce their own light
What is the sun?
The stars help us daily as signs and as ________
What is timekeepers?
The galaxy in which most of the stars from constellations belong to
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
Light takes this amount of time to travel from the sun to the Earth; traveling by car would take 160 years
What is 8 minutes?
The planets you can see without a telescope are
What are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus
Name of the comet that comes into view every 76 years
What is Halley’s Comet?
When a meteor hits the Earths surface it is called this.
What is a meteorite?
A few dozen asteroids follow Jupiters orbit- these are called…
What are Trojan Asteroids?
The star in the sky that is most due north
What is the North Star?
The number of stars you can see in the sky at night
What is about 2000?
Every season the constellations do this.
What is change position?
The nearest galaxy to our own
What is the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy?
Without the suns gravity, the Earth and other planets would not orbit but would do this?
What is move in a straight line?
Bonus: how long does it take for the earth to rotate around the sun? One Year
All the p,antes except these two have moons
What are Mercury and Venus?
The next year that Halley’s Comet will be seen
What is 2062?
The name of the place that was hit by a meteor in Arizona.
What is the Meteor Crater
The name I’d the asteroid that is so bright it can be seen with a sharp eye.
What is Vesta