The Sun & Space
The big, hot, bright object we can see in the sky during the day
What is the sun
Where the appears each morning in the eastern sky
What is the horizon?
Hot balls of gas that give off light and heat
What are stars?
Any objects, including planets, stars, comets, or meteors, that can be found in outer space
What are celestial bodies?
What astronomers use to study the moon and stars
What is a telescope?
Where the earth, sun, moon and stars are located
What is outer space?
The first appearance of the sun above the eastern horizon and the disappearance of the sun below the western horizon
What are sunrise and sunset?
The time of day just after sunset when the sky is not yet dark
What is dusk?
Certain groups of stars in the night sky that seem to form specific shapes or outlines of "pictures"
What are constellations?
Earth's closest celestial body that is a big, cold, dark rock
What is the moon?
A star that is a source of energy, light, and heat
What is the sun?
The force that causes objects to pull on each other
What is gravity?
The reason stars look like they are blinking
What are gases in our atmosphere?
It is made up of 7 stars and looks like a giant soup ladle and looks different in the sky depending on the time of year
What is The Big Dipper?
Moving in a circle toward the left, which is the opposite direction form the increasing numbers on the clock face
What is counterclockwise?
The bubble of air that surrounds Earth
What is the atmosphere?
This explains why there is always night and day on Earth
What is rotation on its axis?
A rock that flies through space, sometimes mistakenly called a shooting star
What is a meteor?
A constellation of a famous hunter that contains eight main stars
What is Orion?
These phases are changes in the moon's appearance
What are full moon, half moon, crescent moon, and new moon?
Unlike liquids or solids, a thin substance through which objects can pass, such as smoke or steam
What is gas?
The path that Earth follows around the sun
What is the earth's orbit?
Everything in space taken together, including planets, stars, and space itself
What is the universe?
The bright star at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper that always stays in the north
What is Polaris?
The dark spots on the moon
What are lava lakes?