Solar System
This is the Solar System's largest object?
What is the Sun?
Fill in the blanks: The inner planets typically have ________ ___________, while the outer planets are almost entirely made of ____________.
What are rocky surfaces and gases?
This term describes a small rocky object that orbits the Sun but is smaller than a planet.
What is an asteroid?
The moon makes a complete revolution around Earth approximately once each.
What is month?
Describe the purpose of the International Space Station
What is it provides a place for astronauts to live and work in space? Astronauts can study the wonders of space while in space!
Name 5 different components of the solar system
What are planets, the Sun, moons, asteroids, comets, meteorites, dwarf planets, etc.?
These are the eight planets of the solar system in order from the Sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
These objects, made of ice, dust, and rock, orbit the Sun in highly elliptical paths.
What are comets?
Name the eight phases of the moon in order.
What is the new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third (last) quarter, waning crescent?
This is the name of the large telescope launched into space in 1990 that provides clear images of distant galaxies.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Explain the difference between Earth's rotation and Earth's revolution.
Earth's rotation on its axis takes approximately 24 hours and causes our day and night. It also creates our seasons.
Earth's revolution around the Sun takes approximately 365 days and causes our year timeline as well as contributes to the seasons.
These two planets are known as the "ice giants" because of their cold atmospheres.
What are Uranus and Neptune?
This region of space, located between Mars and Jupiter, is filled with rocky objects.
What is the asteroid belt?
The following description matches which of the moon phases: The moon is decreasing in light between a full moon and a last quarter moon.
What is the Waning Gibbous?
Describe the difference between telescopes and satellites.
Telescopes are to see things of far distances in space, satellites orbit other larger objects and are used for communication
What angle is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
What is 23.5 degrees?
This planet has clouds of sulfuric acid, lots of lightning and hurricane-force winds.
What is Venus?
Explain the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, and a meteoroid.
A meteor enters Earth's atmosphere and burns creating a bright streak of light in the sky.
A meteorite is a piece of rock or metal that has fallen to Earth from space. If it lands on Earth it is a meteorite.
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body floating in space.
Which planet has the most moons?
What is Saturn?
Fill in the blanks: A refractor telescope uses a ______ to see things in the distance, whereas a reflector telescope uses a __________.
What is a lens and a mirror?
Name one thing in the solar system that emits light and one thing that reflects light.
What are stars or the Sun?
What are moons, planets, comets or asteroids?
These three things classify a planet.
What is a planet that orbits the sun, is large enough to be sphere-like due to gravity and has cleared its orbit from other debris?
Describe the purpose of the Hayabusa2 Mission.
To collect samples from the asteroid Ryugu and bring them back to Earth for further analysis.
Describe why the moon changes phases.
The sun always illuminates half of the Moon while the other half remains dark.
On Earth, our view of the illuminated part of the Moon changes each night, depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, or path, around Earth.
We see the reflected light from the sun off the moon here on Earth.
Name the first satellite put into space by Alberta
Is it the Alouette 1, Voyageur II, Ex-Alta 1, or Ex-Alberta 1?
What is the Ex-Alta 1?