ASTRONOMY
Two reasons God made the stars and planets.
What are to show his glory, to keep the earth stable, as a calendar, to help the birds know when to fly south?
The number of earths that would fit into the sun.
What is one million?
The planets that make up our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? (Pluto)
Another name for a dirty snowball.
What is a comet?
The kids in our co-op who are left-handed.
Who are Eden and Sylvester?
The name of America's Space Program.
What is NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)?
The number of miles the earth is from the sun.
What is roughly 93 million miles?
The terrestrial planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
This can be found between the inner planets and the outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
The man who said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who was Neil Armstrong?
The study of the Universe.
What is Astronomy?
Places on the sun that are cooler than the rest of the sun.
What are sun spots?
It is considered Saturn's twin.
What is Jupiter?
The name of the first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik?
Teams of scientists live here and conduct many experiments.
What is the International Space Station?
The astronomer who first said the earth revolves around the sun.
Who was Copernicus?
The color with shortest wave lengths.
What is blue?
This planet's gravity attracts comets which might otherwise hit earth.
What is Jupiter?
Another name for the North Star.
What is Polaris?
The shape of our galaxy.
What is a spiral?
The astronomer who first studied space with a telescope.
Who was Galileo?
When the moon gets between the sun and the earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
The chemical that gives Neptune its blue color.
What is methane?
A meteor that hits the earth is called this.
What is a meteorite?
The four different shapes of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical, lenticular, and irregular?