Stars
This is a medium-sized star, located in our Solar System.
What is the sun?
The time it takes for Earth to rotate once on its axis
What is 24 hours?
This is the force that attracts a body toward the center of the Earth
What is gravity?
This is an imaginary line around which the Earth rotates.
What is the Axis of Rotation?
This is a word for how far light can travel in one year.
What is a light year?
Before we had clocks, this ancient tool was used to tell time during the day.
What is a sundial?
If a bowling ball and a pencil were dropped on the moon from the same height, this is the one that hits the ground first.
What is neither? (they fall at the same speed)
This is one part of a pattern of temperature changes and other weather trends over the course of a year.
What a season?
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern are called this.
What is a constellation?
The Earth orbits around this star.
What is the sun?
Gravity is a force that all objects have.
What is true?
This is a time of year when daylight and darkness are nearly equal for most of the Earth.
What is an equinox?
This constellation looks like a large cup.
What is The Big Dipper?
The Heliocentric Model (Earth goes around the sun) was able to explain this mysterious phenomenon in the way stars move.
What is Stellar Parallax?
The reason a feather falls slower than a bowling ball on Earth is due to this force.
What is air resistance?
The shortest or longest day of the year is called this.
What is a solstice?
This is the name of that thing you made is class that tells you when you can see certain stars in the night sky.
What is a planisphere?
This is the name we give to all of the things orbiting around the sun.
What is the Solar System?
Gravity is 6 times less here, making it possible to jump crazy high into the air.
What is the Moon?
The time is takes for one body to go around another (like the Earth and the sun) is called this.
What is a revolution?