Planets
The planet known as the "red planet"
What is Mars?
The first person to step on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong
The invisible line that separates the Northen Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere
What is the Equator
The Sun and everything that orbits it, including the planets, moons, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids etc.
What is the Solar System
The dwarf planet once considered the ninth planet.
What is Pluto?
The Planet with Rings made mostly of Ice and Rock
What is Saturn?
The Space Agency of the United States
What is NASA?
This force keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun
What is gravity?
An object that orbits another one, such as the moon orbiting Earth. Can be artificial or natural.
What is a Satellite?
When the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow on Earth and blocking the Suns light
What is a Solar Eclipse
The Largest Planet in the Solar System
What is Jupiter?
The American Spacecraft that first successfully landed humans on the moon
What is Apollo 11?
The Earth takes this long to orbit the Sun once.
What is a year?
A repeating path that an object in space takes around another one
What is an Orbit?
Any human made object in orbit that is no longer useful, ranging from rocket stages to tiny paint flecks.
What is Space Junk
The hottest Planet in the Solar System
What is Venus
The person who discovered the sun had sunspots, Jupiter's moons, stars of the universe and many more
Who is Galileo Galilei
The phase of a Moon when it appears illuminated from Earth's perspective occurring when the Earth is positioned between the Sun and Moon
What is a full moon?
Spheres of hot gas, held together by their own gravity
What are Stars?
The ancient theory that places Earth at the center of the universe, with the other planets orbiting the Earth
What is the Geocentric model?
The Planet that rotates on it's side
What is Jupiter?
The telescope that gave us deep and clear images of Space and Galaxies
What is the Hubble Telescope?
The Gravitational pull of the moon and the sun, which creates large amounts of water on opposite sides of the earth
What are tides?
The cycles on planets caused by the axial tilt and orbit around a star
What are Seasons?
The ancient theory that places the Sun at the center of the solar system with the planets revolving around the Sun
What is the Heliocentric Model?