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Comets
Asteroids
Meteors
Eclipses
Stars and Constellations
100
What are comets sometimes known as?
What is a dirty snowball?
100
What is the asteroid belt?
It is a group of asteroids that orbit the sun.
100
Another name for a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
100
A solar eclipse happens at what time of day?
What is during the daytime?
100
The closest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
200
What shape are comets?
What is a ball (spherical, circle)
200
What is an asteroid made of?
What is rock?
200
What do you call a smaller piece of an asteroid?
What is a meteoroid?
200
What is a solar eclipse?
What is when the moon is lined up between the sun and the Earth. The moon blocks the light of the sun.
200
What is used by many people as a guide in the sky?
What is the North Star or Polaris? It is a star that people use to tell which was is north.
300
What is the famous comet that comes around every 80 years or so called?
What is Halley's Comet?
300
Where is the asteroid belt found?
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
300
What is a meteor?
A meteoroid that has entered the Earth's atmosphere.
300
What phase of the moon must be out in order to see a lunar eclipse?
What is a full moon?
300
Polaris is a part of which constellation?
What is the little dipper?
400
Why are comets called dirty snowballs?
They are balls of ice that are covered in rock and dust.
400
What do you call a rock that orbits between Mars and Jupiter?
What is an asteroid?
400
Why does a shooting star seem to glow?
The meteor burns up when it enters the Earth's atmosphere and that is what you see.
400
What is a lunar eclipse?
What is when the Earth is between the moon and the sun blocking the sun's light from hitting the moon?
400
What is a constellation?
What is a group of stars that make a picture?
500
What is the tail formed of and how does it form?
It is made from vapor of the melting ice and is formed when the sun melts the ice ball.
500
What is an asteroid?
What is a rock orbiting the sun that was not able to form into a planet?
500
What is a meteorite?
What is a meteor that has made it to the Earth's surface? It crashes into the ground and makes a crater.
500
What kind of eclipse happens more often?
What is a lunar eclipse?
500
Name a constellation.
What is the little dipper, big dipper, orion, etc.