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Systems
Goldilocks and Co.
Scientific Method
Differences
Anything Goes
100
Systems are usually connected to or part of:
What are other systems?
100
At this distance from a star, water can exist as a liquid at all times.
What is a Habitable Zone?
100
A Hypothesis is a fancy Greek word for that means the following:
What is an educated guess?
100
"Rotation" means "spin"; "__________" means "orbit".
What is Revolution?
100
Astronomers have found this invisible object at the centre of our galaxy.
What is a black hole?
200
Take this central part of our Solar System away and the orbits of the planets will never be the same.
What is the Sun?
200
Planets that orbit these stars are ideal for harbouring life.
What are yellow/ main-sequence stars?
200
The write-up of a scientific experiment, step-by-step.
What is a procedure?
200
Weight changes depending on what planet or moon you are standing on; _________, on the other hand, is ABSOLUTE.
What is Mass?
200
Scientists have given the very begining moments of our Universe this name:
What is the Big Bang?
300
This attractive force keeps the different parts of our Solar System in predictable relationships with each other.
What is gravity?
300
These enormous, extremely bright stars are too unstable to have planets orbiting around them that harbour life.
What are Blue Giant stars?
300
If this thing is not supported by an experiment's data, it is WRONG.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The Sun emits light; the moon and the planets ______ light.
What is "reflect"?
300
Our Solar System belongs to this larger spiral-shaped system.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
400
The greater the ___ of an object the greater its gravitational pull.
What is mass?
400
The Habitable Zone is larger for this type of life-form, since they can survive extreme heat and extreme cold.
What are microbes?
400
In an experiment, scientists work with only one of these at a time.
What is a variable?
400
Asteroids are made of rock; Comets are make of ______.
What is ice?
400
This Canadian Astronaut is currently acting as commander of the International Space Station.
Who is Chris Hatfield?
500
This measurement of gravitational pull will change depending on what body in space you are standing on.
What is weight?
500
Planets that orbit Red Dwarf stars are not ideal for harbouring life since, in order to be at the right temperature to carry liquid water, they would have to be very close to their star and therefore exposed to large amounts of this harmful form of energy:
What is radiation?
500
What scientists do to a variable in order to prevent it from interfering with the outcome of an experiment.
What is "controlling" a variable?
500
The Summer and Northern Hemispheres recieve the same amount of light in the Spring. In the Fall they will recieve ____________.
What is "the same amount of light"?
500
Our Galaxy is headed on a collision course with its closest galaxy neighbour named:
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?