Seasons
Vocabulary
Earth
Stars
Galaxy and More
100
The order of the four seasons we experience on Earth
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
100
An orbital motion where one object moves entirely around another?
What is a revolution?
100
It takes the Earth this much time to complete one rotation?
What is 24 hours?
100
These are known as a group of stars form patterns?
What are constellations?
100
Our Solar System is part of a bigger galaxy which is known as
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
200
It is this season in Canada when the North Pole is tilted towards the Sun
What is Summer?
200
The science of celestial bodies and of their sizes, motions, and compositions.
What is Astronomy?
200
It takes the Earth this much time to complete one revolution
365.25
200
A celestial body that has its own energy and light source
What is an emitter?
200
These can be classified as natural or artificial orbiting bodies
What are satellites?
300
It is this season in Canada when the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun
What is Winter?
300
An imaginary line through the center of the Earth to which the Earth rotates around?
What is an axis?
300
The Earth rotates in this direction
Counterclockwise
300
The direction of the apparent movement of the Sun across our sky
What is East to West?
300
The solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy, while the Galaxy is in this
What is the Universe
400
We have seasons because the Earth is titled and does this around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
400
Half a sphere or ball. The Earth has a Northern and Southern one.
What is a hemisphere?
400
Angle of 23.5
What is the angle of the Earth's axis?
400
The heavenly body in our solar system whose light makes our day and around which the planets revolve
What is the Sun?
400
Objects in space attract one another with a force known as
What is Gravity?
500
The Earth is in this position during this month and season?
What is Spring and March?
500
a heavenly body with such strong gravity that light cannot escape it and that is thought to be caused by the collapse of a massive star
What is a black hole?
500
This distance is 150,000,000 km
What is the distance between the Earth and the Sun
500
This process occurs over a million years, then forms in under one second.
What is the creation of a black hole?
500
The name for the phase of this moon.
What is a full moon?