Day and Night
Miscellaneous
Planets!
Our Place in Space
Misc/Vocab
Vocab
100

What moon phase is this?

What is Full Moon?

100

What is the name of the galaxy we live in?

Milky Way

100

What is the asteroid belt.

100

The Sun is a _______?

 Star

100

What word means......... having no limits?


infinite

100

What is.....The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet?

Atmosphere

200

The spinning of the Earth around the Sun

A. Satellite

B. Revolution

C. Orbiting

Revolution

200

When are shadows the longest?

What is in the afternoon.

200


What is Uranus.

200

How long does a rotation of the earth around it's axis take?

 about 24 hours.

200

What is a small rocky body orbiting the sun?

Asteroid

200

What is....Energy that comes from a source in the form of waves or rays you cannot see?

Radiation

300

What year did the first man walk on the moon?

A. 1935

B. 1960

C. 1968

D. 1980

1968

300

It is the closest object to Earth.

What is Moon?

300

What is the largest planet in our solar system.

 Jupiter.

300

What is the only other planet in our solar system that we believe could sustain life?

Mars

300

What is the Hubble?

A. spacecraft

B. telescope

C. robotic space rover

telescope

300

What is....The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution?

orbit

400

What phase of the moon is shown here?

New Moon

400
These are the rock planets.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

400

Between Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, which one has the most moons?

What is Saturn.  It has 82 moons.

400

the Earth rotating on it's axis, making a revolution around the sun.

400

What means...To think of or suggest ideas about what is possibly true or real; to form a theory about something?

Theorize

400

What is.....An invisible area in outer space with gravity so strong that light cannot get out of it?

black hole
500

What causes us to have four seasons?

A.  The moon is tilted

B. The earth is tilted

C.  People like different seasons

B. The earth is tilted

500

One revolution or  a complete trip of Earth around the sun.  How many days does that take?

365

500

The pull of the moon on Earth's oceans result in...

What are tides?

500

What is the name for the path that a planet takes around the Sun? 

A. Orbit

B. Path

C. Planetary Route

Orbit

500

There are 82 moons in this gas giant.

What is Saturn.

500

What is.....the scientific study of stars, planets, and other objects in outer space?

Astronomy