Vocabulary
Planets
Moon Phases
Stars
Facts
100
Earth turns about an imaginary line known as its...
What is axis?
100
List the order of the planets...
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?
100
The Moon phase where the Moon appears to have the Sun’s light shining on more than half the right side of the moon
What is Waxing Gibbous Moon?
100
The star in our solar system
What is the sun?
100
This creates the Earth's seasons...
What is the way the Earth is tilted on its axis?
200
The motion of a planet or other object as it turns on its axis.
What is rotation?
200
List three traits the inner planets share...
What is 1. closest to the Sun, 2. warmer and smaller, 3. made of a solid material?
200
Sun illuminates exactly the left half of the side of the Moon. Sometimes call half Moon
What is the Last Quarter Moon?
200
Stars twinkle because
What is 'their light enters through the atmosphere, which is made up of different temperatures"?
200
He made improvements on the telescope and was a major part of the Scientific Revolution
What is Galileo Galilei?
300
The movement of any object in an orbit, such as Earth moving around the sun
What is a revolution?
300
The two largest planets in the solar system are...
What is Jupiter and Saturn?
300
The Moon is not visible from Earth
What is New Moon?
300
A hot sphere of gas that gives off energy...
What is a star?
300
This is the main cause of day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
400
A large object that moves around a star
What is a planet?
400
The outer planets are made of ...
What is gas?
400
The name of the phase that is one quarter of the way around Earth
What is First Quarter Moon?
400
A group of stars
What is a galaxy?
400
The model of the solar system that shows the Earth being at the center of our solar system
What is the geocentric model?
500
A pattern or picture outlined by stars...
What is a constellation?
500
They call the outer planets the...
What is Gas Giants?
500
Describes seeing more and more of the Moon.
What is waxing?
500
List three details that describe the Sun...
What is 1. average size star, 2. made of gases, 3. Hydrogen gas fuels the sun and heat and light comes from this gas?
500
Light shines through the lenses of this telescope.
Who is a refracting telescope?
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