Gravity
Gravity is an INVISIBLE force. (True or False)
What is TRUE?
What is another 5 billion years?
Flat areas on the Moon's surface.
What are marias?
A chunk of rock from outer space that burns up in the atmosphere.
What is a meteo?
The bright streak of light we see when a meteoroid enters our atmosphere.
What is meteor?
Two factors that affect the strength of the force of gravity.
What are MASS and DISTANCE?
The hottest time of the day.
What is about 3-4pm?
(The sun is the highest at noon, but heat continues building up after noon and the air gets the hottest around 3-4 pm.)
This is why footprints on the moon stay for a long time.
What is no atmosphere (no weathering or erosion)?
Large chuck of ice, dust, gasses, and rock that orbit the sun. They are sometimes referred to as "dirty snowballs".
What are comets?
Another name often referred to for a meteor?
What is a shooting star?
Two factors that keep the moon in orbit around the Earth.
What are GRAVITY and INERTIA?
This does not change with the Earth's revolution.
What is the Earth's tilt?
Many asteroids and meteoroids collided on the moon many years ago. These collisions caused depressions or craters on the moon’s surface. Sometimes when we look at the moon from the earth, it looks like ........
What is cheese?
*Daily Double* Two ways that distances within the Solar System can be measured.
What is astronomical units and by the speed of light (light minutes, light years, etc)?
The first person to orbit the Earth.
Who is John Glenn?
There is no air on the moon, thus the moon has no gravity (TRUE or FALSE)
What is FALSE: there is gravity on the moon?
(The moon has mass, thus has gravity.)
Shadows appear_____ as the sun gets closer to the horizon.
What is longer?
He stepped first on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Cooler, dark areas on the sun’s surface. Every 11 years, the sun seems to have a major breakout of these areas.
What are sunspots?
A place where scientists are currently living and working in space.
What is the ISS (International Space Station)?
An object in space that is formed after a massive star explodes and dies.
What is a black hole?
This would happen if the Earth's rotation was faster
What is the day would be shorter?
Similarities between the moon and the Earth
What are craters, hills, mountains, valleys, volcanoes?
A name for rocky and dense planets found within the inner solar system.
What is terrestrial?
*Daily Double*This type of star is our sun.
What is yellow dwarf?