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100
Mirrors cause you to see objects in the distance
What is a reflecting telescope?
100
It takes about 24 hours for the Earth to ______________ once.
What is rotate?
100
This is the morning star.
What is Venus?
100
A huge globe of hot gases that shines by its own light.
What is a star?
100
The telescope positioned in orbit around the Earth.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
200
Sir Isaac Newton designed this type of telescope.
What is a reflecting telescope?
200
This is the path an object takes on its journey through space.
What is an orbit?
200
This is the name of the North Star.
What is Polaris?
200
A large object that circles a star and does not produce its own light.
What is a planet?
200
These are created because the Earth tilts either toward or away from the Sun at different times of the year.
What are seasons?
300
Lenses magnify and focus light.
What is a refracting telescope?
300
This is the imaginary rod, or pole, that stretches through the Earth between the North and South Poles.
What is the axis?
300
The Big Dipper is part of this constellation.
What is Ursa Major?
300
An object made of ice and gases that have an elliptical orbit around the sun.
What is a comet?
300
These objects from space can only called this once they land on Earth.
What is a meteorite?
400
Galileo Galilei used this type of telescope.
What is a refracting telescope?
400
Earth's ________________ cause the stars to appear to move across the night sky.
What is rotation?
400
Constellations always appear in the same position of the sky.
What is false?
400
These are often called shooting stars.
What is a meteor?
400
The term planet comes from the Greek word for star.
What is false?
500
The largest telescopes in the world are of this kind.
What is a reflecting telescope?
500
It takes about 365 days for Earth to travel its orbit around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
500
A group of stars that forms a pattern developed by farmers long ago.
What is a constellation
500
This star appears motionless because it lies above the North Pole.
What is Polaris?
500
Rocks do this as they pass through Earth's atmosphere.
What is burn up?