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Planets
Day/Night and seasons
The stars and the moon
Space travel
100
This is the centre of the solar system. The planets revolve around it.
What is the sun
100
This planet is closest to the sun
What is Mercury
100
Planets revolve around this imaginary line around the sun
What is an orbit
100
This is a group of stars that create patterns in the sky. People have told Greek myth about how they came to be. There are 88 of them.
What is constellations
100
This is another name for the study of Space
What is astronomy
200
When the moon, the sun, and Earth create a 90 degree angle
What is neap tide
200
This planet is home to many
What is Earth
200
When the northern hemisphere is experiencing spring, the southern hemisphere is experiencing __________.
What is autumn
200
This is how long it takes the Earth to circle around the sun
What is 365 days
200
A giant laboratory where astronomers do experiments to learn more about space
What is International Space Station (ISS)
300
This place has the largest change in high tide and low tide
What is the Bay of Fundy
300
This planet is known for the beautiful system of rings that circle the planet
What is Saturn
300
This is what the Earth rotates on from day to night. The imaginary line that runs through the Earth's north and south poles. It creates a tilt.
What is the Earth's axis
300
This is when the moon is growing.
What is waxing
300
These are important pieces of technology that allow signals to be sent from space to Earth. We can learn about global warming from them
What is satellites
400
This has reflective properties that allow us to see it in the night sky.
What is the moon
400
This planet is the largest planet in the solar system, has beautiful colour, and is know for its great red spot
What is Jupiter
400
This is the half of the Earth that we live in. It is divided by the equator
What is northern hemisphere
400
These are the expanding cooling stars. They are beginning to die and are very big, but size depends on their original mass
What is red giant or super giant
400
The first female canadian astronaut
What is Roberta Bondar
500
There are now only 8 planets, when there used to be nine. This is what pluto is now known as.
What is dwarf planet
500
This planet is called the morning or evening star, because it appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise
What is Venus
500
This is the main reason why we have seasons
What is the Earth's tilt
500
The birth place of a star
What is the nubula
500
This is a made-in-canada robotic arm used to help astronauts when they need to fix something on the outside of the ISS.
What is Canadarm 2