Planets
What planet has the largest mass?
Jupiter
The northern and southern hemisphere experience____ seasons?
Opposite
What does the moon reflect?
Sunlight
What is another name for a meteor?
Shooting star
Where is the moon during a solar eclipse?
It is between the sun and the Earth
What two things keep the planet in orbit?
Gravity and inertia
What would happen if the sun did not heat the Earth?
There would be no weather
What moon phase is being experienced when the Earth is between the moon and the sun?
Full moon
What is the term for a meteoroid if it enters Earth's atmosphere?
What is a meteor
Which of the following occurs when one planetary body passes through the shadow of another.
Eclipse
Kepler correctly proposed that the planets orbited the sun in what shape?
Elliptical
The tilting of the Earth's axis causes what?
Changing of the seasons.
Explain why a half moon occurs
A half moon occurs because the sun only lights half of the moon's surface due to the moon's location.
What is the main difference between asteroids and meteoroids?
Asteroids are generally bigger than meteoroids.
What is the term for the inner, darker, cone-shaped area of an eclipse's shadow?
Umbra
True or false: All of the planets are nearly spherical in shape?
True
What season experiences the most amount of sunlight and the longest days?
Summer
As the Moon revolves around Earth, a certain amount of the Moon's surface is lit up by the sun and seen by people on Earth. What effect is being produced by this movement?
Phases of the moon
What is a meteorite?
A chunk of metal or rock that passes through Earth's atmosphere and makes contact with Earth's surface.
True or false: Lunar eclipses can be viewed from more places on Earth than solar eclipses
True
What planet has the most complex ring system?
Saturn
What is the relationship between climate and the distance from the equator?
The closer a country is to the equator the warmer temperatures would be. The further away you move from the equator, the colder it gets
Why are people able to see the Moon?
The moon orbits Earth and reflects light from the Sun back to Earth.
What direction does a comets tail face while orbiting the sun?
In what order are the Moon, Earth and the Sun aligned during a total eclipse?
Order: Sun, Moon, and Earth in a straight line