Constellations
Earth's Movement
Gravity
Stars
Miscellaneous
100
A group of stars that forms a pattern in the night sky.
What is a constellation?
100
The spinning of the Earth on its axis is called __________.
What is rotation?
100

The force that keeps the planets in orbit and you on Earth. 

What is gravity?

100

The color of a star informs astronomers about a stars __________.

What is temperature?

100
Stars appear to move for two different reasons.
What is rotation and revolution?
200
The name of the North Star is ____________.
What is Polaris?
200

One complete circular orbit by Earth around the Sun is a ___________________.

What is a revolution or orbit?

200

Gravity is strongest at this point on Earth.

What is the shoreline?

200

Some stars appear larger than others because ______________________________________.

What is because they are closer than others?

200
If the Sun became bigger its gravitational pull would become _____________________. If the Sun became smaller its gravitational pull would become ____________________.
What is stronger? What is weaker?
300
The Big Dipper is part of the constellation called _________ ________.
What is Ursa Major?
300
The imaginary rod that stretches through Earth between the North and South Poles is called ____________________.
What is the axis?
300

Gravity pulls objects in this direction.

What is towards the center of Earth? 
300

These are 3 factors that affect the apparent brightness of the stars.

What is temperature, distance, and size?

300
This is made up of a star and the objects that orbit around it.
What is a solar system?
400
Orion is a constellation whose position seems to shift with the seasons. What movement causes this?
What is Earth's revolution?
400
Earth's rotation takes this long.
What is 24 hours?
400

This is where gravity is weakest on Earth.

What is at the tops of mountains?

400

This is why the Sun is bigger than other stars.

What is it is closer?

400
A scientist who studies stars and space is known as this?
What is an astronomer?
500
The "morning star" is actually this.
What is the planet Venus?
500
Because different hemispheres tilt toward or away from the Sun at different times of the year, Earth experiences this.
What are different seasons?
500

Would you weigh more or less on the moon? 

What is the moon?

500

This color star is the hottest.

What is blue?

500

The Sun rises in the __________ and sets in the __________. 

What is East, West?

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