Planets
Stars
Moon
Vocabulary
technology
100
Fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war.
What is Mars
100
luminous ball of plasma held together by gravity
What is a star?
100
Eight
What is how many phases the moon has?
100
a massive, luminous ball of plasma held together by gravity
What is stars?
100
an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation
What is a telescope?
200
The fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined.
What is Jupiter?
200
The nearest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
200
New Moon, New Crescent, First Quarter, New Gibbous, Full Moon, Old Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Old Crescent
What are the phases of the moon?
200
a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity
What is planets?
200
an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor.
What is a satellite?
300
The innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System.
What is Mercury?
300
the galaxy in which the Solar System is located
What is the milky way?
300
New moon
What is When the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun?
300
the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body
What is orbit?
300
It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
What is Sputnik-1?
400
The second planet from the sun.
What is Venus
400
an asterism of seven stars that has been recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures from time immemorial.
What is the big dipper?
400
occurs between a new moon and a full moon. The amount of the lit surface we can see is growing, heading to the west side of the Moon.
What is waxing moon?
400
an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere
What is constellation?
400
This is used to study the effects of long-term space flight on the human body as well as to provide platforms for greater number and length of scientific studies than available on other space vehicles
What is space stations?
500
The sixth planet from the Sun and is the second largest in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers (74,130 miles).
What is Saturn?
500
an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma (a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere), and sometimes also a tail.
What is comet?
500
occurs between a full moon and a new moon. The amount of the lit surface we can see is shrinking, heading to the east side of the Moon.
What is waning moon?
500
an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation.
What is telescope?
500
a scientific space exploration mission in which a robotic spacecraft leaves the gravity well of Earth and approaches the Moon or enters interplanetary or interstellar space.
What is space probe?
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