Density
Solar System Formation
The Moon
Orbits & Seasons
Moon Phases & Tides
100
The equation for density.
What is Mass divided by Volume (M/V)?
100
The solar system formed from this cloud of gas and dust.
What is a nebula?
100
This small planet shared young Earth's orbit and led to the creation of the Moon.
What is Theia?
100
The shape of Earth's, and other celestial objects', orbits.
What is an ellipse?
Like a circle, but TWO points of focus, not one.
100
The phase of the Moon when the entire side is visible.
What is the full moon?
200
The denser planets.
What are the inner planets?
200
The inside of the planetary disk spins ______ than the ________.
What is the inside...faster...outside?
200
The degree of tilt Earth has on its axis, due to a collision.
What is 23.5 degrees?
200
Copernicus's model that placed the Sun at the center of our solar system.
What is the Heliocentric Model?
200
The position in which the Northern Hemisphere experiences summer?
What is C?
300
The force that makes a difference between mass and weight.
What is gravity?
300
Matter clumping together to form objects.
What is accretion?
300
Due to the Moon, Earth's rotation ____________.
What is "has slowed"?
300
The Earth is closest to the Sun at the ________.
What is the perihelion?
300
The number of low tides experienced anywhere on Earth per day.
What is two times?
400
If I fill a cup with 250 mL of gasoline, and the mass is 200 grams, what is its density?
What is 0.8g/mL?
400
The order of the planets in our solar system, from closest to the sun to furthest.
What is Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune?
400
The Moon is made up of matter from ____
What is early Earth and the former planet Theia?
400
The month in Earth's orbit in which it is closest to the sun.
What is January?
400
The cause of a Spring Tide.
What is the New Moon and Full Moon?
The combined gravity of the Sun and Moon.
500
The density of iron is 9.3 g/cm3, the volume of the sample is 10 cm3, what is the mass?
What is 93 g?
500
The number of moons among the inner planets.
What is 3 moons?
Mars has 2, Earth has 1.
The outer planets have about 202!
500
The number of, country of origin, and gender of the people who have walked on the Moon.
What is 12 American men?
500
The two days in the year in which the amount of daylight and darkness is equal.
What is the autumnal equinox (September 22nd) and vernal equinox (March 20th)?
500
The phase of the Moon when the majority is visible and growing each night.
What is waxing gibbous?