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The Moon
100
A star and all the objects that orbit around it.
What is a solar system?
100
The planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
100
The hemisphere in which Florida is located.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
100
The cause of night and day.
What is Earth's rotation or spinning?
100
The brightest object in the night sky.
What is the moon?
200
A natural object that orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
200
The difference between these is that one orbits a star and the other orbits a planet.
What are planets and moons?
200
Description of Earth's axis as it revolves around the sun.
What is tilted?
200
The imaginary line that goes through the center of a planet from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the axis of a planet?
200
These are the 4 main phases of the moon.
What are the new moon, 1st quarter, full moon, and 3rd quarter?
300
These are the terms used to describe the 4 inner and the 4 outer planets in our solar system.
What are rocky or terrestrial planets and gas giants?
300
The celestial body that will have the longest year.
What is Pluto?
300
The season it is in New England when the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
300
Earth makes one complete rotation form west to east every _______ hours.
What is 24 hours?
300
This is the reason we see light on the Moon's surface.
What is reflected sunlight off the surface of the moon?
400
The order of the planets in our solar system (including dwarf planet pluto) from the closest to the sun to the farthest.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?
400
This caused stellar dust in space to start clumping together to eventually form planets.
What is gravity?
400
True or False: Earth's seasons are caused by its rotation and tilt on its axis.
What is False? Seasons are caused by Earth's revolution and its tilt on its axis.
400
Earth makes one __________, or orbit around the sun.
What is revolution?
400
The time it takes for the Moon to complete one revolution around the Earth.
What is 28-29 days?
500
The order of space structures from smallest to largest (galaxy, solar system, star, universe).
What are a star, solar system, galaxy, and universe?
500
This is the name of our Galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
500
When the Northern Hemisphere has Spring, this is the season in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Fall, Autumn?
500
One complete revolution around the sun is a __________.
What is a year?
500
The direction the Moon travels around Earth.
What is counter clockwise?