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The Moon
Earth
Space
Technology
100
The way the moon looks at different times of the month.
What is a phase?
100
The movement of the earth around its axis
What is rotation?
100
A pattern of stars
What is a constellation?
100
A tool that makes faraway objects look closer.
What is a telescope?
200
The phase of the moon that appears as half dark and half light, as the moon is waxing (getting bigger).
What is first quarter?
200
The movement of the earth around the sun.
What is revolution
200
An object that moves around another larger object in space.
What is a satellite?
200
The first man to use a telescope.
Who is Galileo?
300
An object that orbits around a larger object in space.
What is a satellite?
300
The amount of time it takes the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun.
What is 365 days?
300
The pull of the moon, sun, and earth that keeps us planted on the ground.
What is gravity?
300
A vehicle that moves through space but is controlled from Earth.
What is a space probe?
400
When the whole side of the moon that faces Earth is light by the sun.
What is full moon?
400
The two parts of the earth, divided by the equator.
What is the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
400
A method of keeping track of days, months, and years. Some are based on the sun and some are based on the moon.
What is a calendar?
400
A giant space lab that orbits the earth.
What is the International Space Station?
500
A way to keep track of the days and months, based on the phases of the moon.
What is a lunar calendar?
500
The causes (2 of them) of the seasons of the earth.
What is tilt and rotation?
500
A calendar that is based on the moon's phases.
What is a lunar calendar?
500
The base of space travel in the United States.
What is the Kennedy Space Center?