An object is longest in the morning and evening when the sun is low in the sky and short in the afternoon when the sun is highest in the sky.
What is a shadow?
100
It takes this about one month to complete a revolution around the Earth
What is the moon?
200
The middle layer of the sun is called the
What is chromosphere?
200
This is not a form of technology:
x-ray machine, glasses, inline skates, wood
What is wood?
200
These, located around Saturn, are made of water, ice, dust, and chunks of rock
What are rings?
200
This planet has the greatest number of moons
What is Jupiter?
200
The same side of the moon always faces Earth ... true or false
What is true?
The moon does not move, it is the phase that changes the way it appears
300
Gravity has this effect on planets which allows them to
What is orbit around the sun?
300
What is not a form of telecommunications:
telephone, radio, karioke machine, skype
What is karioke machine?
300
Earth has this many moons
What is one?
300
Uranus is different from other gas giants by
What is rotating on is side?
300
A lunar eclipse occurs at night during this moon phase
What is the full moon phase?
400
Gravity affects the movement of the planets by keeping them moving in what type of paths
What is circular paths instead of straight lines?
400
A drawing used to design new products, in which the drawing is represented either in a much larger or much smaller ratio
What is scale model/scale drawing?
400
This is the smallest of the gas giants
What is Neptune?
400
This is the largest body discovery in the solar system since 1930, it is smaller than Earth's moon and Pluto, and said to be considered the 10th planet by some astronomers
What is Sedna?
400
A solar eclipse is seen only during daylight hours during this moon phase
What is a New Moon?
500
Nicolaus Copernicus mostly studied what in 1473, changing the way most believed during that time.
What is astronomy?
500
In the 1800's, the way of life changed when this was used with communication?
electricity, television, time, transportation
What is electricity?
500
All of the planets, aside from Pluto, have an orbit shaped like this
What is an ellipse?
500
This person discovered the "planet" Pluto
John Couch Adams
Urbain Leverrier
Clyde Tombaugh
Johann Galle
Who is Clyde Tombaugh?
500
This is the order that the Earth, Sun, and Moon are in during a solar eclipse