🌟 The Sun & Star
This is the star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
This is the closest planet to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
These objects are made of clay and rock and orbit the Sun.
What are asteroids?
A moon is this type of satellite.
What is a natural satellite?
This device is used to view distant objects in space.
What is a telescope?
In space, astronauts experience this due to different gravity conditions.
What is weightlessness?
This causes seasons on Earth.
What is Earth’s tilt on its axis?
This is the day with the MOST daylight hours.
What is the summer solstice?
The Moon does not give off its own light. It does this instead.
What is reflect sunlight?
This happens when the Moon is in Earth’s shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
Auroras are natural displays of this in the sky.
What are coloured lights?
A star is best described as this type of object.
What is a giant ball of gas that emits light and heat?
These four planets are known as the rocky planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The main asteroid belt is located between these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
Satellites that are constructed and launched by humans are called this.
What are artificial satellites?
This unmanned spacecraft collects information as it travels through space.
What is a probe?
Astronauts must bring this with them because it is not prevalent in space.
What is oxygen?
When our part of Earth is tilted toward the Sun, we experience this season.
What is summer?
This is the day with the LEAST daylight hours.
What is the winter solstice?
When we see the whole Moon lit up, it is called this.
What is a full moon?
This happens when the Moon blocks the Sun’s light.
What is a solar eclipse?
The northern lights are also called this.
What is aurora borealis?
Looking directly at the Sun is dangerous because this part of your body can be damaged without pain.
What are your eyes?
This planet is about 150 million km from the Sun.
What is Earth?
These objects are made of dust and ice and often have a tail.
What are comets?
This was the first satellite put into orbit by Alberta in 2017.
What is Ex-Alta 1?
This exploration device lands on planets like Mars to collect data.
What is a rover?
On the ISS, oxygen is mainly produced using this process.
What is electrolysis?
In winter, the Sun is at a lower angle, which causes this change in daylight.
What are shorter days?
These occur twice a year when day and night are about equal length.
What are equinoxes?
When we cannot see any of the Moon lit up, it is called this.
What is a new moon?
During a solar eclipse, only these areas experience darkness.
What are certain parts of Earth?
The southern lights are called this.
What is aurora australis?
Stars appear to twinkle because they do this.
What is emit light?
This is the correct order of the planets from the Sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
When a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and glows, it is called this.
What is a meteor (shooting star)?
This is the difference between natural and artificial satellites.
What is natural satellites occur naturally, and artificial satellites are built by humans?
This probe was launched in 1977 and is still travelling through space.
What is Voyager 1?
Valeri Polyakov holds the record for this many continuous days in space.
What is 437 days?
When Canada has summer, this season is happening in Australia.
What is winter?
In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice happens around this date.
What is June 21?
When the Moon appears to be getting larger, it is called this.
What is waxing?
During a lunar eclipse, the Moon may appear this colour.
What is red?
Auroras are most commonly seen near these parts of Earth.
What are the poles?
The surface of the Sun is approximately this hot.
What is over 5000°C?
This planet is about 4.5 billion km from the Sun.
What is Neptune?
These celestial bodies emit light, while planets and moons only reflect light.
What are stars?
This is a research facility that orbits Earth and allows astronauts to live and work in space.
What is the International Space Station?
These are five technologies used to explore the solar system.
What are telescopes, satellites, probes, rovers, and space stations?
Name three barriers to living and working in space
What are lack of gravity, lack of oxygen, extreme temperatures, isolation, radiation (any three)?
Places near the equator do NOT experience big seasonal changes because of this.
What is the Sun’s direct rays staying similar all year?
At the North Pole during the winter solstice, this happens.
What is the Sun does not rise (24 hours of darkness)?
The Moon takes approximately this long to orbit Earth once.
What is about one month (27 days)?
This must happen for an eclipse to occur.
What is the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up?
The most common colour seen in the northern lights is this.
What is green?