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What is the telescope that uses lenses to gather light from a faraway object and magnifies its image?
Refracting telescopes
100
What are large, dark, flat surface areas on the moon?
Maria
100
What is the tendency of an object to stay in motion?
Inertia
100
What is the apparent shift of an object seen from two locations?
Parallax
100
What are the three types of galaxy?
Spiral galaxy, irregular galaxy, elliptical galaxy
200
What is a telescope that uses visible light and reflects a series off two or more mirrors?
Reflecting telescopes
200
What are three landscapes that we have on the moon?
Highlands, mountains, and valleys
200
What is a ball of ice and rock that orbits the sun?
Comet
200
What is a huge cloud of gas and dust in space?
Nebula
200
What are the dark lines in the spectrum?
Absorption lines
300
What is the rotation of the Earth rising in the east and sets in the west?
Apparent path
300
What are the phases called when the moon is being more and more revealed?
Waxing moon
300
What is a metallic object that orbits the solar system?
Meteoroids
300
What is the long band where most stars are found?
Main-sequence stars
300
What are the two types of shifts?
Redshift, blueshift
400
What is the order of the standard time zones starting I with eastern and heading west?
Eastern, central, mountain, pacific, Alaska, Hawaii
400
What are the phases when the moon is getting more and more hidden?
Waning moon
400
What is a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere?
Meteor
400
How bright a star looks in Earth's night sky
Apparent magnitude
400
What is the movement of the galaxy when it is expanding?
Redshift
500
What are three examples of things that we use to explore space?
Artificially satellites, space probes, space shuttles
500
What are the two types of tides?
Neap tide, spring tide
500
What is a meteor that strikes Earth's surface?
Meteorite
500
What is a start's actual brightness?
Absolute magnitude
500
What is the movement of the galaxy when it is getting closer?
Blueshift