The Moon & Its Phases
During this lunar phase the entire Moon is visible from Earth.
What is a full moon?
The two main types of craters are these.
What are simple and complex?
This is the number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8?
This can also be considered a birthplace of stars.
What is a nebula?
The name of the galaxy in which we live.
What is the Milky Way?
It takes this many days for the Moon to complete one cycle of phases.
What is about one month or 30 days?
This is the material displaced from the land when a crater is formed.
What is ejecta?
A light year measures this.
What is the distance light travels in one year?
When a large star dies this is left behind.
What is a supernova remnant?
The most common believed scientific theory of how the universe was formed.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
The Moon orbits in this direction around Earth.
What is counterclockwise?
A meteoroid burning in Earth's atmosphere is called this.
What is a meteor?
The asteroid belt is between these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
A system of two stars orbiting each other is called this.
What is a binary star?
A group of stars held together by gravitational attraction is known as this?
What is a star cluster?
When the lit portion of the Moon's surface is increasing it is called this.
What is waxing?
(Remember: Wax on, Wane off)
The Moon has much more craters than the Earth because of this.
What is Earth's atmosphere?
Planets, Dwarf Planets and Comets are all considered these of the Sun.
What are satellites?
(Know: natural vs. artificial satellites)
After a star leaves its red giant phase, it can shrink and become this.
What is a white dwarf?
This is the most common type of galaxy.
What is a flattened spiral galaxy?
This happens to create a solar eclipse.
What is the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth?
Name three properties that could make different crater formations.
What are size, speed and impact angle of the impactor?
A comet's tail always points in this direction.
What is away from the sun?
This is why nothing, including light, can escape from the inside of a black hole?
What is the gravitational pull of crushed neutrons?
Name one other galaxy or galaxy group other than the Milky Way.
What are the Magellanic Clouds, the Andromeda Galaxy or the Virgo cluster?