Review week 1
Cosmos is another word for?
What is The Universe.
What are dark,cold patches on the Sun called?
Sun spots.
Who was the first man on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
The time it takes Earth to orbit around the sun is?
1 year
The pulling force that attracts objects to each other.
What is Gravity.
Put the following in order from largest to smallest: Planets, Universe, Galaxies, Stars
What is Universe, Galaxies, Stars, Planets
What year did man land on the moon for the first time?
July 1969.
Who invented the rocket?
Robert Goddard.
What are the four outer planets?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
What is a nickname for comets?
Dirty snowballs.
Johannes Kepler said that the Earth orbits the sun in a(n) __________ shape.
What is elliptical?
The dark areas of the moon that were thought to be seas are called? Also Latin for Seas.
Marias
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What keeps a planet orbiting in the Solar System?
Gravity
Halleys Comet appears from the earth every _______ years?
76 -77
During what time period or dates did Nicolaus Copernicus live?
What is 1473 - 1543.
The sun provides energy in what 2 forms?
Heat and Light
Name a TYPE of telescope in this week's reading.
Optical, Radio, Space, Refractors, Reflectors.
What kind of Planet is Pluto Considered?
A Dwarf Planet
What color is the coolest stars with a surface temperature of only about 5400 degrees F?
Red
What THEORY did Copernicus create or come up with?
What is the Heliocentric theory.
This phase that COMES AFTER new moon.
What is waxing crescent?
Which President founded NASA?
Dwight Eisenhower.
Which are the terrestrial planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
The largest asteroid discovers in 1801 and is now considered to be a dwarf planet is called?
What is Ceres?