Equinox and Solstice
What is an equinox?
What is an equal amount of daylight?
What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
What is Venus?
What is the tilt for Earth?
What is 23.5 degrees.
Who made the first artificial satellites and what is its name?
What is the Soviet Union and Sputnik.
What are the three main waves of a seismic wave?
What is P-waves, S-waves and surface wave.
When is the fall equinox?
September 21-22
What is the Earth's exact rotation and revolution?
What is rotation: 23 hours 56 minutes and revolution: 365 days 6 hours and 9 minutes.
What is Earth elongated curve?
What is ellipse.
What is used to study radio waves that are in space?
What is a radio telescope.
What is another name for matter?
What is medium?
When is the spring equinox?
What is March 20-22.
What are the 4 rocky planets and the 4 gas giants?
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the rocky planets and Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the gas giants.
What is the 2 main gases in the sun?
Hydrogen and helium.
What does the optical telescope do?
what is it produces magnified image of objects. Mostly used for houses and buildings called observatories.
What is kinetic an potential energy?
Kinetic energy is energy in motion and potential energy is the energy that an object has because of its position.
What are the two solstices and what makes them different from each other?
What is winter solstice and summer solstice. The winter solstice has the shortest daylight and summer solstice has the longest amount of daylight.
What are the characteristics of a gas giants?
They are mostly made up of gas. They are very light They move quickly in space and have many rings and moons. They have a diameter of 48,000 km or less.
What is a Perihelion and Aphelion?
An perihelion is when the earth is closest to the sun and an aphelion is when the Earth is at its farthest point from the sun.
How can astronauts communicate with people on Earth?
Is butter a solid, liquid, or gas?
what is solid when refrigerated and liquid when melted?
what is another name for the spring and fall equinox?
What is Vernal equinox and Autumnal equinox.
What are the characteristics of a rocky planet?
They are made up of rocks and metal. They are very heavy. They move slowly in space. They have no rings and very few moons. They have a diameter of less then 13,000 km.
What is the positioning of the moon during a solar eclipse?
The moon is in between the sun and Earth.
What gathers information from planets and sends it back to Earth?
What is a space probe?
What is the 2nd Newton law?
Force equals mass times acceleration.