Stars and Space
What type of object produces its own light and heat in space?
What is a star
This pattern of stars appears to stay the same shape in the sky.
What is a constellation?
This force pulls objects towards Earth.
What is gravity?
A space rock before it enters earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteoroid?
Earth completes one of every 24 hours
What is a rotation?
This is the main reason our sun looks brighter than other stars.
What is it is much closer to Earth
The nightly "movement" of stars is caused by this Earth motion.
What is rotation?
The path an object follows around another object
A streak of light when a space rock burns up in earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
This causes day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
This unit is used to measure very large distances between stars.
What is a light-year?
Why constellations appear in different areas in different months.
What is Earths revolution around the sun
Why don't you feel the Earth spinning
What is we move along with it?
A space rock that reaches Earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
This tilt of Earth is responsible for the seasons.
What is earth's axis
Two things that determine how bright a star appears from Earth
What are distance and size?
Even though stars seem to move together, this is actually true about them.
What is they are very far apart?
If gravity on earth was weaker what would happen when we jump?
What is we would go higher?
What is a new moon
Why do shadows change length during the day?
What is the suns position changing due to Earth's rotation?
Even if a star no longer exists we may still see it because of this.
What is light taking time to travel to earth
This is why you see different constellations in winter versus summer.
What is Earth's position in its orbit changes?
This explains why rivers and objects move downhill.
What is gravity pulling towards earths center?
When the lit part of the moon is increasing it is called this.
What is waxing?
This combination causes Earth's seasons to change.
What is Earth's tilt and rotation?