Earth in Space
The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space.
What is astronomy?
A push or a pull.
What is force?
The different shapes you see from Earth.
What are phases?
Definition of a telescope.
What is a device built to observe distant objects by making them appear closer?
The definition of a rocket.
What is a device that expels gas in one direction and moves in the opposite direction?
The two major ways Earth moves through space.
What is rotation and revolution?
The two things the strength of gravity between two objects depends on.
What is the mass and distance between the objects?
When an object in space comes between the sun and third object, it casts a shadow on that object.
What is an eclipse?
The features on the moon.
What are maria, craters, and highlands?
The two velocities rockets use.
What is orbital velocity and escape velocity?
Earth's seasons are caused by.
What is a tilted axis?
The two factors that Newton concluded that combines to keep Earth in orbit around the sun and the moon in orbit around the Earth.
What is inertia and gravity?
The causes of the solar eclipse.
What is when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, blocking sunlight from Earth?
Dark flat areas on the moon.
What is maria?
A spacecraft that carries scientific instruments that can collect data, but has no human crew.
What is a space probe?
The day that happens on June 21 and December 21.
What is a solstice?
An object in motion stays in motion, and an object at rest stays in rest.
What is Newton's first law of motion?
The rise and fall of ocean water.
What are tides?
The definition of craters.
What are large round pits on the moon's surface?
The small robots that some space probes have.
What are rovers?
The angle that Earth is tilted at.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The of definition of weight.
What is the force of gravity on an object?
List the moon phases in order.
What is New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, and Waning Crescent?
The size of the moon compared to Earth.
What is one-fourth of Earth's diameter?
The first word said on the moon.
What is "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind?