Space
Stars
Earth in Motion
Moon and Gravity
Vocabulary
100

This is the vast, empty area where everything exists.

What is space?

100

A scorching ball of gas in the sky.

What is a star?

100

This is the spinning motion of the Earth on its axis. 

What is rotation?

100

The circles on the moon are known as this.

What are craters?

100

Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun.

What is Asteroid

200

This is the most powerful and biggest space telescope ever made.

What is the James Webb Space Telescope?

200

What are stars made out of?

What are gases and dust

200

It takes Earth 365 days to do this. 

What is revolve around the sun. 

200

The pattern of the moon within a month.

What is phases of the moon?
200

The name of our sun. 

What is Helios

300

These objects that orbit around the sun, including stars and a variety of other objects are part of this interactive system.

What is a solar system?

300

Blue Supergiant, Red Dwarf, Red Giant, White Dwarf, Black Dwarf, and Yellow Dwarf are all different types of stars. Our sun is an example of this type of star.

What is a yellow dwarf?

300

These are one way to tell time because they are so predictable. 

What are shadows?

300

This is the force that pulls two object towards each other.

What is gravity?

300

Ms. Smith's birth constellation 

What is Libra

400
This is the connection between how far away a planet is from the sun and how long it takes to go around the sun.

What is the farther the planet, the longer it takes to revolve around the sun? 

400

What causes a supernova?

When a supergiant star runs out of fuel and explodes

400

This is the cause of the seasons.

What is the direction of the tilt of the Earth as it rotates around the sun.

400

What would happen without gravity?

Everything not stuck in place would suddenly have no reason to stay down, it would start floating.

400

A collection of thousands to billions of stars held together by gravity.

What is galaxy

500

A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.

What are constellations?

500

These are the reasons stars seem to change their positions in the night sky. 

What are the Earth's rotation, the tilt of the Earth's axis, and the movement of the stars?

500

These two movements determine our calendar. 

What are the Earth rotating around the sun and the Moon rotating around the Earth.

500

The phase of the moon that happens right before the new moon begins again.

What is the waning crescent moon?

500

What is force? 

The push or pull required to move something.