Big Bang
Event that began the universe
What is Big Bang?
Tell me a fact about the Sun
Give me details
Seeing one side of the Moon due to...
- Opposite rotation
- Synchronous rotation
What is Synchronous Rotation?
Earths rotation takes how long
What is 24 hours?
Rocky objects that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are
What is Asteroids?
Tell me a fact about the Big Bang theory
Give me details
Northern hemisphere has the most hours of daylight at
What is Summer Solstice?
Time between successive full moon
What is 29.5 Days?
One revolution of Earth around the sun take about one
(how long?)
What is year?
Small, icy bodies that have highly elliptical orbits and can be found in the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt are
What is Comets?
Big Bang Theory began when
What is 14 Billion Years Ago?
Equinox occurs when...
- Northern and southern hemisphere get the same amount of daylight and night- North end of earths axis is titled toward the sun
- Earths axis is parallel to the Sun's rays
What is Northern and southern hemisphere get the same amount of daylight and night?
New, full, gibbous, quarter and crescent describes
What is Phases of the Moon?
A day on Saturn takes about 10 earth hours. Which explains this short day
- Saturn rotates more rapidly than earth
- Saturn is much farther from the sun than the earth
- Saturn's orbit is a different shape than earth's
What is Saturn rotates more rapidly than Earth?
Kuiper Belt is located
What is Beyond Neptune?
The big bang theory explains which of the following...
- How the sun turns hydrogen into helium
- How our universe began
- How fast light travels through spaceWhat is how our universe began?
Elements making up the Sun's mass
What is Hydrogen and Helium?
Lighted part of the moon appears to increase, the moon is
What is Waxing?
Gas giants have a longer revolution period due to...
- They are larger
- They are farther away from the sun
- They are closer to the sun
What is they are farther away from the Sun?
A light-year is what...
What is The distance light travels in a year?
Theory that supports the formation of the moon
What is The Ejected Ring Theory?
A protoplanet smashed into the earth and the debris got trapped in Earth's gravitational field, accreted and become the moon.
99% of all matter contained in the solar nebula now exists in
What is The Sun?
Lunar eclipse to occur...
- Sun must be directly between the earth and the moon
- Moon must rotate around the sun
-Earth must be directly between the sun and the moon
What is Earth must be directly between the sun and moon?
1) Titled 90 degrees on its die; second to last planet
2) Lord of the Rings
3) Hottest planet; Earth's Twin
4) Largest volcano in solar system Olympus Mons
What is Uranus?
What is Saturn?
What is Venus?
What is Mars?
1) Greatest Red Spot; Largest planet
2) Closest planet to the Sun; no atmosphere
3) Only planet with known life and liquid water
4) Fastest winds; names after the Roman god of the Sea
What is Jupiter?
What is Mercury?
What is Earth?
What is Neptune?