Planets
What is a planet?
The name of the moon phase when it appears most light
What is the full moon?
Our solar system is located in this galaxy
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
The number of days it takes the earth to fully orbit around the sun
What is 365 days (and 1/4)?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that, to some people, seem to be in the shapes of pictures
The hottest planet
This causes the rise and fall of tides on Earth
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
These are chunks of rock and metal that orbit between the planets
What are asteroids?
How often the Earth orbits on its own axis
What is every 24 hours?
Ursa Major is more commonly referred to as…
The coldest planet
What is Uranus
WHICH OF THESE MEANS THAT THE MOON IS GETTING SMALLER? WAXING OR WANING
What is waning?
What is Jupiter?
This planet's axis is tilted so it appears to be rotating on its side.
What is Uranus?
This is another name for the study of space
What is astronomy?
Definition of a terrestrial planet
What are planets made up of rocks or metals with a hard surface?
These cause the craters on the surface of the moon
What are asteroids or comets colliding with the surface?
These are loose collections of rocks and frozen gases that orbit between the planets, which sometimes have a "tail"
What are comets?
This occurs when the earth is directly between the sun and the moon and blocks the light.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The name of the unit of measure for the distance to stars or the distance light travels in one year.
What is a light year?
Name two gas giants and two terrestrial planets
What is Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter and Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
What is 8 (new Moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent)?
What happens when a meteoroid – a small piece of an asteroid or comet – burns up upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, creating a streak of light in the sky
What is a meteor?
This is the hemisphere of the globe where Canada is found
What is the northern hemisphere?
The first spacecraft to land humans on the moon
What is Apollo 11?