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This is the word for the science that studies the universe.
What is Astronomy?
This is an oval-shaped path that the planets travel in their orbit around the sun.
What is ellipse?
This is the turning, or spinning, of a body (such as a planet) on its axis.
What is Rotation?
These are the progression of changes in the moon’s appearance during the month.
What are the Phases of the moon?
These are the names for spheres in outer space.
What are celestial bodies?
Copernicus was a scientist who proposed this model of the solar system.
What is the Heliocentric model?
This is the motion of a celestial body along a path around the sun.
What is Revolution?
This celestial body orbits the Earth.
What is the moon?
In the southern hemisphere, a winter solstice would occur on this date.
What is June 21st?
This is the word for when a moon is decreasing in its moon phase and showing less light.
What is waning?
This Scientist was the first to use a telescope in astronomy, which was used to support the theory that the sun was the center of the solar system.
Who is Galileo?
In this solar system model the Earth was proposed as the center of the solar system.
What is Geocentric Model?
When the Moon is completely in light, it is referred to as this phase.
What is a full moon?
Out of the 3 celestial bodies involved in an eclipse, this one is the smallest.
What is the Moon?
This is the planet that is next in line after Earth.
What is Mars?
When the Earth is between the Sun and Moon it is called a...
What is a lunar eclipse?
The phase of the moon where no light is seen is called this.
What is a new moon?
This is the number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8?
This is a word that means the same as rotation.
What is spinning (on an axis)?
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the name for the event on June 21st in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
The month is based on the cycle of the moon’s phases. It lasts about this many days.
What is 29-30?
This is the reason it is safe to look at a lunar eclipse.
What is because you are looking at the moon and it does not produce its own light?
The 2 latitude lines that are at 23.5 degrees North and South are called what two names?
What are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?