Earth
What unique feature of Earth allows it to support life?
What is liquid water.
Which body passes in between the others during a solar eclipse: the sun, the Earth, or the moon?
What is the moon.
What are the four outer planets?
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Which planets is the asteroid belt located between?
What is Mars and Jupiter.
What does extinction mean?
How long does it take for Earth to revolve around the sun?
What is 365 days.
What are the dark narrow bands seen before and after a total solar eclipse called?
What are shadow bands.
What are the four outer planets?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
What are comets mostly made of?
What are ice and dust.
Where do short-period comets start their journey?
What is the Kuiper Belt.
What is the axial tilt of Earth responsible for?
What is the seasons.
What creates the shadow on the moon that causes a lunar eclipse?
What is the Earth.
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
What is Jupiter.
What happens to a comment when it approaches the sun?
What is it forms a tail from melting.
What is the Oort Cloud.
What does Earth's position in the Goldilocks zone allow to happen to water?
What is it can be liquid or it can have all three states, gas, liquid, and solid. (Either answer is acceptable)
How many types of eclipses are there; name them?
What are two types, solar and lunar.
What 3 things are the rings of the outer planets made of?
What is dust, rock, and ice.
How often does Halley's Comet appear?
What is every 76 years.
When the moon increases in intensity and size do we call that waxing or waning?
What is waxing.
Describe one difference between the Earth and the outer planets.
What is rocky vs. gas/ice, rings/no rings, life/no life, many moons/few or no moons, colder than Earth, etc.
What happens during a partial eclipse?
What are the names of the two gas giant planets?
What is Jupiter and Saturn.
What two possible ways can an asteroid impact affect Earth?
What is create a crater and cause a mass extinction event.
When two celestial bodies exert gravitational influence on each other what is this called?
orbital resonance.