Definitions
A dent in the moon's surface
What is a crater?
The earth takes this long to rotate around its axis.
What is 24 hours?
This is at the center of the Solar System
What is the sun?
The only planet that we know of that supports life
What is earth?
The two sources of natural light in the sky
What are the sun and stars?
A group of stars that form a picture in the night sky
What is a constellation?
True or False. The sun and stars move across the sky.
What is false? The earth is rotating on its axis and the sun and stars appear to move across the sky.
The celestial object that the earth revolves around
What is the sun?
This planet is the only planet that rotates clockwise
What is Venus?
When the moon is getting brighter it is doing this
What is waxing?
A falling star or object that is passing through the earth's atmosphere
What is a meteor?
The time of day when shadows are the longest.
What is noon?
The amount of time that it takes the earth to revolve around the sun
What is 365 and 1/4 days?
This is the oval path which the planet follow around the sun
What is an orbit?
This is the period of time it takes the moon to revolve around the earth
What is 28 days?
The oval path around which objects travel in space
What is an orbit?
The time of year when days are the longest.
What is summer?
When the southern hemisphere has winter, the norther hemisphere has this season
What is summer?
Another name the outer planets are known as
What is Jovian?
The earth has seasons because of this
What is a 23 degree tilt?
The layer of air between earth's surface and outer space
What is the atmosphere?
The time of year when nights are the longest.
What is winter?
The hemisphere that is experiencing winter has this direction of sunlight
What is indirect?
Name all of the planets in the Milky Way Galaxy in order
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Uranus, and Neptune?
These are three constellations in our Canadian night sky.
What are Orion, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Aquarius, Aries, Bootes, Cancer, Capericorn, Casseopia, Chepus, Andromeda, Pisces, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Canis Major, Lepus, Eridanus?