Seasons
This measures at an angle of 23.5°.
The positions of the sun, moon and Earth during a neap tide.
What is a 90° angle?
What is Jupiter?
This rocky structure can most commonly be found between Jupiter and Mars.
What is an asteroid?
What is the Universe?
This is the cause of Earth experiencing day and night.
What is Earth's rotation on it's axis?
This occurs with the New and Full moons.
What is a spring tide?
These planets are known for being smaller, closer together and having a rocky surface.
What are the terrestrial or inner planets?
This is more commonly named a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
This is the distance light can travel in 365 days.
What is a Light-Year?
These two terms are used to describe the four days a year that officially start the four seasons.
What are equinox and solstice?
The moon phase that occurs between the First Quarter and the Full moon.
What is a Waxing Gibbous?
Gravity is affected by these two factors.
You will find these space bodies orbiting the sun with their tails facing away from the sun due to solar wind.
What are comets?
This has no definite shape or pattern.
What is an irregular galaxy?
A period of three months when the south pole has constant daylight due to the tilt of Earth's axis.
What is summer in the southern hemisphere?
This is the moon phase that occurs between the waning crescent and waxing crescent.
What is the new moon?
These planets are larger, very spaced out, and less dense than other planets.
What are the gas giants or outer planets?
A meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere to become this, it then it hits the surface of the Earth and becomes this.
What are a meteor and a meteorite?
This has an oval shape and is made of mainly older stars.
What is an Elliptical Galaxy?
The type of light the northern hemisphere experiences when the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun.
What is indirect sunlight?
Even though the sun has the strongest force of gravity in our solar system, this factor causes the moon to have the greatest affect on the tides.
What is the moon's distance from Earth?
All planets in our solar system orbit around the sun because of this factor.
What is the mass of the sun?
This structure of a comet is often called a dirty snowball, it is made of frozen ice, dust and gas.
What is a nucleus?
This has a disk shape, with arms extending from the dense cluster of stars at the center.
What is a spiral galaxy?