Solar System
How many moons orbit the earth?
1
What do stars produce?
Heat and light
What is a galaxy?
A huge collection of stars, gas, and dust
If this is the anwser what is the question? 8
How many planets in our solar system?
What is light years measured in?
Years traveling in space.
What is a rotation of a planet?
Extra 200 points if you can say what a revoultion is.
Rotation: A planet spinning on an axis
Revolution: The orbit around the sun or planet
What is a star?
A large sphere of hydrogen gas hot enough for nuclear reactions to occur in its core
3
What divides our planets in the solar system?
The Asteroid Belt
How long does light from the sun take to travel to Earth?
4 Earth Years
How many planets are in our solar system?
8
How many types of stars are there? Extra one hundred if you can name them all.
Blue, Blue white, White, Yellow, Orange, Red
6
What does a Irreguar galaxy not have that the other two galaxies have?
A star in the middle
What are the qualifcations for a planet?
Orbits the sun, is massive enough to be nearly spherical in shape, and has no other large objects in its path
What is the difference bewteen a Meteoroid and a meteor?
Meteor enters Earth's atmostphere
What is in a solar system?
All planets, meteors, comets, stars, and other rocky and icy bodies in our solar system
What color is the hottest star?
What kind of galaxy is this?
Spiral Galaxy
What planet's day is only 40 minutes longer than earth's?
Mars
What is waning?
The lit portion of the moon is smaller
What is a solar system?
The gravitational bounds of the sun and the objects that orbit it
What does a star become when it dies?
A white dwarf star
Double Jeopardy
This galaxy is older and is shaped like a football.
What is an irregular galaxy?
This planet is made of heilum and hydrogen.
What is Jupiter?
Occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow
What is a Lunar eclipse?