Galaxies
What is a galaxy that has a bulge in the center and arms that spiral out?
What is a spiral galaxy.
What do we call a moon growing in illumination?
What is waxing.
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are inner or outer planets?
What is, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are inner planets.
What tide causes tides to cause higher highs and lower lows?
What is, a spring tide.
How many days does it take the Earth to orbit the sun?
What is, 365 days
What shape is an elliptical galaxy? (hint: is it square, circle, oval, ice cream cone?)
What is, an elliptical galaxy is an oval-shape.
What occurs during a Solar Eclipse?
What is, the moon comes between the sun and earth.
What is the composition of outer planets? (composition=what something is made of)
What is, gas
The First and Third Quarter phases occur during what tidal pattern?
What is, neap tide.
How does the tilt of Earth's axis create seasons?
What is, the Earth's axis is tilted away from the sun and half tilts towards the sun (summer/winter).
What is the name of a galaxy that doesn't have a specific shape?
What is an irregular galaxy.
What is a waning moon?
What is a waning moon is a moon that is shrinking in illumination.
What is the shape of a planet's orbit around the sun? a) square b) spherical c) oval d) irregular
What is, c) oval.
What moon phases occur during a spring tide?
What is, New or Full moon phases.
How long does it take for the Earth to rotate?
What is, it takes the Earth 24 hours to rotate.
What is a huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, and gas bound by gravity?
What is a galaxy.
What occurs during a Lunar Eclipse?
What is, the Earth blocks sun's light to the moon?
What is the composition of inner planets?
What is, rocky and metallic
What happens to tides during a Neap Tide?
What is, there is less of a difference between high and low tide.
If the Southern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
What type of galaxy is our galaxy (the Milky Way)?
What is a spiral galaxy.
With your group on PDF Expert draw a model that shows a solar and lunar eclipse. The first three groups to complete this will receive 500 points.
Now copy these drawings onto your Review Squares!
What are the four outer planets?
What is, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
In your group, open up PDF expert and draw a diagram including the the sun and moon that shows a spring tide.
How would you draw a Neap Tide diagram?
Team Time: Correctly order the steps that tell how the Solar System was developed.
1)Dust and gas created planets 2)Temperature rose as matter condensed 3)Cloud of dust and gas collapsed 4)Nuclear reactions created our sun
What is, 1)Cloud of dust and gas collapsed 2)Temperature rose as matter condensed 3)Nuclear reactions created our sun 4)Dust and gas created planets.