Astronomy
A unit of length that astronomers use for measuring distances within the solar system. One astronomical unit is the average distance between the Earth and the sun.
Astronomical Unit (AU)
An object's spinning motion on its own axis
What is rotation?
The darkest part of a shadow
What is an Umbra?
Four different times during the year with different types of weather.
What are seasons?
Bill Nye Video Question
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What season would it be in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is Summer?
A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction
What is the Galaxy?
An invisible line around which an object rotates, or spins.
What is a planets axis?
The large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun.
What is our Moon!
The part of Earth south of the equator.
Half of the Earth north of the equator
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Moonlight is an incorrect term. Why?
The moon reflects the light from the Sun!
A force that attracts a body towards the center of Earth, or towards another physical body having mass.
What is Gravity?
The path an object follows as it moves around another one.
What is to orbit?
The apparent shape of the moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from Earth.
What is a Lunar Phase?
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth dividing Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is the Equator?
What is the correct alignment during a solar eclipse?
Sun, Moon, Earth
A celestial body that is in orbit around the sun
The movement of a planet around the sun
What is revolution?
Occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth align so that the moon passes into Earth's shadow.
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
If it is summer in the southern hemisphere, what is the season in the northern hemisphere?
What is Winter?
What force exists between the bodies that causes the tides?
What is Gravity?
The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity
What are the names and the order of the planets in our solar system?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune!
When the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow on Earth that either fully or partially blocks the Sun’s light.
What is a solar eclipse?
The Earth rotates on its axis one every
What is 24 hours
What are the three types of planets in our Solar System?
Terrestrial, Gas Giants, Ice Giants