Astronomy
You can use a ___ to look at the stars in the night sky
What is a telescope?
The closest planet to the Sun
What is Mercury?
The force that keeps planets orbiting the sun
What is gravity?
How many moons do we have?
What is 1?
The first man to walk on the moon
Who was Neil Armstrong?
______ are sections of the sky which contain recognizable star patterns
What are constellations?
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
The name of the galaxy we live in
What is the Milky Way?
A solar eclipse occurs when the _____ is between earth and the sun
What is the moon?
Who invented Calculus and the laws of physics that bettered our understanding of the universe?
Who was Isaac Newton?
The time it takes for the earth to orbit around the sun
What is a year (365 days)?
The outer planets are also known as _______ giants.
What are Gas Giants?
The collection of rocks between the inner and outer planets
What is the Asteroid Belt?
When the Earth blocks the sunlight from the moon?
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
The first American woman to go to space was ____
Who was Sally Ride?
The name for the Northern lights
What is an Aurora Borealis?
What planet is closest in size relative to Earth?
What is Venus?
A large chunk of ice, dirt and rocks that usually comes from the Oort Cloud in a long elliptical Orbit
What is a comet?
When the moon completely blocks the sun from earth
What is a Solar Eclipse?
Who was the first person to provide evidence for a heliocentric solar system?
Who was Galileo?
How long it takes for the moon to orbit the earth
What is a month (or 28 days)?
Name all the planets in order from closest to further from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
A donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit
What is the Kuiper Belt?
Moon light is really light being reflected off of the _
What is the sun?
___ was the first living animal to be sent to space, who unfortunately did not survive the journey
Who was Laika (Soviet Dog)?
______ are found at the center of nearly every galaxy
What are black holes?
On what planet does it rain diamonds? (2 possible answers)
What is Neptune or Uranus?
What is the nearest LARGE galaxy to the one in which we currently inhabit?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
The moon phase that is the beginning of the cycle
What is a new moon?
___ holds the record for the longest cumulative time spent in space by an American astronaut
Who is Scott Kelly?
The temperature of the core of the sun is ___
What is 27 million F, or 15 million C/Kelvin?
The inner planets are called this
What is terrestrial?
The Solar System is approximately ___ years old
What is 4.6 billion?
What is the largest moon of Saturn?
What is Titan?
Names of the two dogs who were the first living animals to successfully orbit the Earth and return safely.
Who were Belka and Strelka?