Earth and Sun
Earth and Moon
The Solar System
Vocabulary
Fun Facts
100
The two forces holding the Earth in orbit to the Sun are ____________ and ________________.
What is gravity and intertia
100
The marks on the Moon's surface are called __________.
What are craters.
100
An optical telescope uses these two objects to make objects seem larger and nearer.
What are lens and mirrors.
100
This is one complete spin on Earth's axis.
What is a rotation?
100
It was in this year that Pluto was demoted from a major planet to a dwarf planet.
What is 2006?
200
The path an object takes around the Sun is called an ________________.
What is orbit.
200
The light from the Moon is actually reflected light from the _______.
What is the Sun.
200
This causes Earth's telescopes to not see as clearly as the Hubble Space Telescope.
What is Earth's atmosphere.
200
This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and the light from the Sun can no longer be seen on Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
This dwarf planet resides in the Astroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.
What is Ceres?
300
Moving objects have the tendent to move in a straight line; this is called _______________.
What is intertia.
300
This is the rise and fall of the ocean's surface.
What are tides?
300
These types of telescopes gather radio waves from space.
What are radio telescopes.
300
This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon passes into Earth's shadow and does not recieve direct sunlight.
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
This feature on Jupiter's surface is probably a storm that has lasted over 400 years.
What is The Big Red Spot?
400
Every year Earth makes one complete trip, or __________ around the Sun.
What is a revolution.
400
The parts of the Earth facing the _______ experience high tides.
What is the Moon.
400
This amount of planets orbit the Sun. (Not counting Pluto!)
What is eight?
400
This is what Galileo used in 1610 to view the planets.
What is a telescope?
400
Rock has been found on Mars that is also found on Earth, but only in the presense of this liquid.
What is water?
500
When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it is ___________ in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Autumn.
500
These two moon phases are opposite.
What is new moon and full moon.
500
This planet is the furthest from the Sun.
What is Neptune?
500
This is what a meteor is called after it has reached Earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
500
Venus' cloud are made of this deadly poison.
What is sulfuric acid?
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