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Earth's Place in Space
The Sun
The Universe
100
Are the longest and shortest days of the year solstices or equinoxes?
What are solstices
100

Is a region on the sun of very strong magnetic field an aurora or a sunspot?

What is an sunspot

100
What is the longest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere.
Summer solstice
100
Name a form of visible energy our sun gives off.
What is sunlight
100
What is the name of our Galaxy?
What is the Milky Way
200
What size of star is the sun?
What is a mid-size star
200
What is the name for a point in Earth's orbit around the sun where nights and days are the same length?
What is an equinox
200
What is the name of the imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole?
What is the axis or Earth's axis
200
Name a form of invisible energy our sun gives off.
What is ultraviolet light
200
What does the Big Bang Theory explain?
What is how the universe began
300
Where are stars formed?
What is a nebula.
300
What do we call it when less massive elements are combined to form massive elements?
Fusion
300
Explain what the Earth does in one year's time.
It makes one complete revolution around the sun.
300
What is the name of the closest star to our solar system?
What is Alpha Centauri
300
Because the red shift tells scientists that galaxies are moving away from Earth what does that tell them about the universe?
It is expanding
400
Name two ways stars change over time?
They change is size, color, and brightness
400
What do we call the glow or display of lights in the skies near polar latitudes?
What is an aurora
400
What two things are the result of the Earth and moons gravitational force?
What are tides and the moon stays in orbit.
400
What is being fused together in the sun's core and what is it producing?
What is hydrogen is being fused to form helium and energy.
400
Arrange the following in order from smallest to largest: solar system, Milky Way galaxy, universe, Local Group
What is solar system, Milky Way galaxy, Local Group, Universe
500
Please name the five stages in a mid-sized stars life.
What is mid-size star, red giant, nova, white dwarf, black dwarf.
500
What is the name for the darkening of the moon when it passes through Earth's shadow?
What is lunar eclipse
500

What causes the earth's seasons?

The 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth's axis

500
Name two things caused by solar flares.
Static interference on radio and power outages
500
What are the three main shapes of galaxies and what shape of a galaxy is the Milky Way?
What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Milky way is a spiral galaxy.