Cosmos
Stars
Solar System
Stuff in Space
Locating Stars
100
Earth was at the center with planets orbiting around it in spheres, stars were fixed to outermost celestial sphere.
What is geocentric?
100
Grouping of stars that form patterns in the night sky.
What is Constellations?
100

Another name for gaseous planets.

What are Jovian or outer planets?

100

Fragments of meteors that reach the earth's surface

What is a meteorite?

100
how high the stars are in the sky.
What is Altitude?
200
Represents the shortest (winter) and longest (summer) periods of daylight.
What is Solstice?
200
Group of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
What is Galaxy?
200
gas and dust which forms stars and planets.
What is nebulae?
200

These are made of ice and dust and leave a visible tail as they travel.

What are comets?

200
A star located at altitude 45 and azimuth 330 is located at approximately which location in the classroom?

Point to location 

300
Sun at the center with earth and other planets orbiting around it.
What is heliocentric?
300

What a supergiant (large mass star) becomes at the end of its life.

What is black hole or neutron star?

300

distance from the earth to the sun

What is an Astronomical Unit?

300

This element is the primary fuel source in stars and is necessary for nuclear fusion

What is hydrogen?

300

A star located at altitude 75 and azimuth 90 is located at approximately which location in the classroom?

Point to the location 

400
Periods of equal day and night (fall and spring)
What is Equinox?
400
The earliest stage of a star's life.
What is Protostar?
400

the planets that are farther away from the sun.

What are jovian/outer/gaseous planets?

400

Separates the inner and outer planets of our solar system.

What is the asteroid belt? 

400
angle above horizon.
What altitude measures?
500
An elongated circle.
What is an elliptical?
500

Star left at the core of a red giant (average mass star).

What is White Dwarf?

500

The planets that are closer to the sun.

What is Terrestrial/inner?

500

This planet's moons were observed by Galileo using his telescope

What is Jupiter?  

500

A star located at altitude 10 and azimuth 100 is located at approximately which location in the classroom?

Point to the location

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