SOLAR SYSTEM
What type of star is the sun?
Yellow Star
What's the importance of atmosphere on planet Earth?
Protection
What do you call to a movement of the Earths around its axis?
Rotation
What do you call to an extra day added to the calendar every four years?
Leap year
What is the other term called for Winter Solstice?
Yule
What is the largest galaxy in the universe?
Andromeda
How many days it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun?
365.25
What do you call to an imaginary line that passes through the center of the Earth that goes through both North and South Pole?
Axis
What imaginary line that tells you how far north or south of the equator location is?
Latitude
This season is also called "Litha" that falls on or near 21st of June?
Summer Solstice
What do you call on a group of galaxy?
Local group
What planet is the fifth largest planet and the 3rd planet from the sun?
Earth
How many degrees does the Earth is tilted?
23.5
What imaginary line that is measured in angles ranging from zero degrees at the prime meridian to the 180 degrees of the International date line?
Longitude
What do you call to an occurrence when the axis of the earth rotation is exactly parallel to the direction of the motion of Eart/s revolution around the sun?
Equinox
What arm of the milky way does our solar system belong?
Orion Arm
How many minutes does sunlight reach the earth?
8 minutes
What rotation does Earth do?
Prograde Rotaion
What part of the Earth receives equal length of daylight and nighttime?
Equator
What season falls on or around 20th of March?
Spring or Vernal Equinox
What is the second largest galaxy in the universe?
Milky way
What's the speed of the Earth as it moves around the sun?
18.5 mps
Who performed the demonstration that Earth revolves around the Sun using his Principle of a Pendulum?
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
What imaginary circle that stretch all the way around the Earth from North to South Pole?
Prime Meridian
What are the two latin words where "solstice" is derived from?
sol and sistere