The Sun & Moon
The sun provides...
What is heat and light energy?
The length of Earth's orbit.
What is 365 1/4 days?
The planet that can only be seen with a telescope.
What is Neptune?
NASA is an acronym for this.
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
Scientists who study stars and outer space.
What are astronomers?
The moon shines and glows but is a ball of rock that gives off no light.
How it shines is because it reflects light from the sun?
The earth moves in these two major ways.
What is rotating on its axis and circling, or revolving, around the sun.
The year that Pluto was declassified and became a dwarf planet.
What is 2006?
The rocket sent to the moon in 1969.
What was Apollo 11?
Our sun and stars belong in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
The two kinds of eclipse.
What are solar and lunar?
The smallest planet.
What is Mercury?
The big wind storm, like a hurricane, on Jupiter.
What is the Great Red Spot?
The astronaut who went to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin but stayed on the spaceship.
Who was Michael Collins?
A scientific explanation of how the universe began.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
the term describing the sun at the center of our Solar System.
What is heliocentric?
The hottest planet.
What is Venus?
The last planet that can be observed with the naked eye.
What is Uranus?
The first American astronaut sent into space who stayed for 15 minutes.
Who was Alan Shepard?
The nearest galaxy you can sometimes see at night.
What is Andromeda?
The temperature on the sun.
What is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit?
Many of these with robots have landed on Mars to take photographs and dig up rocks.
What are probes?
Saturn's many large rings are made of this.
What are ice and dust?
The telescope launched into space in 1990 that is still in space today, orbiting Earth.
What is the Hubble Telescope?
The astronomer who created a telescope in 1609 to observe the night sky.
Who was Galileo?