Stars
Kepler
Big Bang
The Sun
The Moon
100

The first stage in the development of all stars.

What is protostar?

100

The movement of a planet in its orbit

What is revolution?

100

The big bang theory suggests that the universe is always doing this.

What is expanding?

100

The part of the sun where nuclear fusion occurs.

What is the core?

100

The force that causes tides.

What is gravity?

200

The property that determines a star's life cycle as it develops.

What is mass?

200

The orbits of planets take this shape.

What is elliptical?

200

Probably the first element.

What is hydrogen?

200

The part of the sun where sunspots are located.

What is the photosphere?

200
Tide that occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth are in a straight line.

What is a spring tide?

300

The final phase for a star that is 8 times the mass of the sun.

What is a neutron star?

300

A planet moves ________ the closer it is to the sun in its orbit.

What is faster?

300

The scientific discovery of Edwin Hubble.

What is redshift?

300

The outcome if Earth's axial tilt changed to zero.

What is no different seasons?

300

The cause of moon phases.

What is the amount of the sunlit side of the Moon that faces Earth?

400

The color of the hottest stars.

What is blue?

400

Kepler's law that explains the speed of orbiting objects.

What is Kepler's second law?

400

The discovery that confirmed how matter expanded during the Big Bang Theory.

What is cosmic microwave background radiation?

400

Occurs when the moon is between the Sun and Earth.

What is a solar eclipse?

400

Occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon.

What is a lunar eclipse?

500

The reason that oxygen and iron exist.

What is nuclear fusion?

500

The orbit of a planet with an eccentricity of zero would take this shape.

What is a circle?

500

The change in frequency of wavelength when an object is moving away from the observer.

What is decreasing?

500

The area in which you could observe a full solar eclipse.

What is the umbra?

500

Observation that suggests that the Moon formed from material ejected during a collision of the early Earth with another planet.

What is the similarities between the Moon and Earth's mantle?