Archimedes
Boötes
Copernicus
Draco
Elliptical
100

This is a giant sphere or ball of gases that produces light and heat.

What is a star?

100

This occurs when Earth’s rotation axis is tilted neither toward NOR away from the Sun.

Equinox

100

This is the distance light travels in one year.

Light Year

100

These are space objects made up of dust and ice - they create a "tail" behind them.

Comets

100

This is the imaginary line through the middle of Earth or any sphere and the Earth spins on this.

Axis

200

What is made up of the sun and all of the objects that travel around it?

Solar System

200

What is a group of stars called?

Constellation

200

This is a natural satellite that revolves around the Earth. 

Moon 

200

When a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere, it produces a streak of light called this.

Meteor

200

Unlike our lab activity telescopes, what type of telescope was Mr. Barriball's?

Reflecting

300

What force keeps the planets in orbit? 

Gravity 

300

When the Earth's rotation axis is tilted directly toward or away from the sun, it is called this.

Solstice

300

Mr. Barriball told us this Schwarzenegger title is "line that divides night and day on the moon."

Terminator

300

This is the movement of one solar system object into the shadow of another object.

Eclipse

300

This is the term for the interference caused by large urban areas that makes observation of celestial objects more difficult

Light Pollution

400

The 4 outer (a.k.a. "gas or ice giant") planets?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

400

The 4 inner (a.k.a. "terrestrial") planets.

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?

400

Not Mr. B.'s opinion or a Disney dog, but "officially" stopped being considered the 9th planet since 2006.  

Pluto

400

The size of the mirror on Mr. Barriball's telescope

8 Inches

400

This equals one rotation of Earth around its axis.

One Day

500

This is the largest planet in the solar system.

Jupiter

500

This is the spin of an object around its axis.

Rotation

500

These are large pieces of space rock with irregular shapes found between Mars and Jupiter.

Asteroid Belt

500

These orbit the Sun and are nearly spherical in shape, but they share the orbital paths with other objects of similar size

Dwarf Planets

500

This equals one revolution around the Sun.

One Year

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