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Earth's Rotations and Revolutions
Earth Moves in Space
Moon Phases
Space Technology
The Night Sky
100
The reason why the sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west
What is the Earth rotates
100
What is a constellation
What is the name for a group of starts that seems to form a pattern in the night sky?
100
The moon phases
What are the changes in the appearance (or the way the moon looks) called?
100
Who was Galileo
Who was one of the first astronomers to study space using a telescope?
100
Constellations
What do scientists call star patterns?
200
24 hours
What is the amount of time it takes for the earth to rotate on its axis
200
What is stella
What is the Latin word that means "star"?
200
This word describes anything that orbits or moves around another object. The moon is an example of this as it orbits the Earth
What is a satellite?
200
A tool used to make faraway objects sppear closer and larger
What is a telescope
200
True
True or false: the patterns of constellations change with the seasons
300
This causes the seasons
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis
300
The Sun does not move. It is the Earth rotating around its axis.
What is the reason why the sun appears to sink or go below the horizon at dusk?
300
What is true
True or false: the moon is smaller than the Earth
300
What is Sputnik
The Space Age began with the launch of what space craft?
300
The Earth travels in an orbit around the sun, so the positions of constellations change from season to season
Why is it possible to see some constellations only during some parts of the year?
400
This is how many seasons occur on Earth
What is 4
400
What is revolve
The Earth does this once a year (takes 365 days to do it completely)
400
What is true
True or false: the moon has no air, wind, or liquid water.
400
The Hubble Telescope
What is the name of the telescope that tool pictures of far away galaxies
400
The Big Dipper
The stars of which constellation for a pattern of a giant spoon?
500
What is rotates on its axis and revolves in an orbit
What are the two ways that Earth moves through space?
500
What is the axis
What is the name for the imaginary line through the Earth?
500
craters
What is the name for the pits in the ground or surface of the moon?
500
The 1960's
In what years did the Space Age negin in Florida?
500
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