Planets
What is the bright object in the night sky that is not the moon?
What is the largest star in the solar system?
The Sun
What causes seasons on earth?
Rotation ALONG AXIAL TILT
What event is believed to have initiated the expansion of the universe approximately 13.8 billion years ago?
The Big Bang
What is the speed of light?
approximately 299,792,458 meters per second
Which planet as the Great Dark Spot?
Neptune
T/F: The Sun does not account for the majority of the solar system
False
What is the largest satellate that orbits Earth?
Moon
What is the dominant form of matter in the universe, yet remains undetectable through electromagnetic radiation?
Dark Matter
Which planet has the largest moon in the solar system?
Jupiter
What planet in the solar system has the largest ring system?
What color are the hottest stars?
Blue
How old is the Earth?
4.5 Billion Years
What is believed to fuel the expansion of the universe?
Dark Energy
What is the name of the galaxy nearest to the Milky Way?
Andromeda Galaxy
What planet has high amounts of Iron Oxide?
Mars
Which colored-stars live the longest?
Red
What phenonmenon occurrs on the Earth every 10 thousand to 50 million years?
Magnetic poles flip
What is the term for the phenomenon where light is distorted by the gravitational influence of massive objects, such as galaxies or clusters of galaxies?
Gravitational Lensing
What is the process called by which light from a star is stretched to longer wavelengths as the star moves away from the observer?
Redshift
What is the axial tilt of Uranus?
about 100 degrees
What is the largest (radius) star ever discovered?
UY Scuti
What is the axial tilt of the Earth?
23 degrees
What is the name of the hypothetical boundary surrounding a black hole, beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of the black hole?
Event Horizon
What is the term for the apparent shift in an object's position caused by the observer's motion?
Parallax