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Astronomy
Comets, Meteors, Asteroids
Earth & Moon
Planets
Vocabulary
100
These are the inner planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
100
These are dirty snowballs
What are comets
100
This causes the Earth's seasons
What is the Earth's tilt
100
This planet is known as the red planet
What is Mars
100
What moon phase refects the entire surface of the moon?
What is the full moon.
200
This is the theory that puts Earth in the center of the system of planets.
What is geocentric
200
This is where you can find the Asteroid Belt.
What is between Mars & Jupiter
200
This is the degree of the Earth's tilt
What is 23.5 degrees
200
This planet is known as the dwarf planet
What is Pluto
200
This is what the spinning motion of the Earth on its axis is called.
What is rotation
300
This is what astronomers use for measuring the distances of the planets from the sun.
What is an Astronomical Unit
300
This is why meteors are called shooting stars.
What is because they burn up in the mesosphere
300
When an astronaut goes to the moon, what will change? a. volume b. mass c. weight d. density
weight
300
This planet has the most mass.
What is Jupiter
300
One trip around the sun for the Earth is called this.
What is the revolution.
400
These are the planets in our solar system in their proper order from the sun.
What Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
400
This is what large chunks of rock in space are called.
What are asteroids.
400
This causes the rise and fall of the Earht's oceans.
What is the moon.
400
Why is Earth the most unique planet?
What is because it has a lot of water and supports life.
400
Do all planets have days of the same length?
No
500
This ancient astronomer cam up with the heliocentric theory.
Who is Galileo
500
This is where scientists think that comets come from.
What is the Keipler Belt
500
These are the 2 gases that make up the Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen and oxygen
500
What planet is known for its rings?
What is Saturn
500
This is the name of the orbit shape when objects orbit the sun.
Elipse.