stars
What is a star?
What is a giant ball of gas that produces light and heat?
The closest star to earth.
What is the sun?
What is the moon?
What is Earth's satellite?
The length of the lunar cycle
What is about 28 days?
You see the moon as a circle. This is because the complete lit part of the moon is facing Earth.
What is Full Moon?
Why can we not see all the stars in the daytime sky?
What is the sun is too bright
Groups of stars that form a pattern?
What are constellations?
What makes the moon so bright?
What is- the moon is reflecting the sun's light?
meaning of "waxing"
What is growing?
You cannot see the moon even though it is in the sky. This is because only the shadow part is facing Earth.
What is New Moon?
How a star's color is related to temperature.
What is Blue stars are the hottest, Red stars are the coolest, Yellow stars are medium temperature?
The most important characteristic that affects the apparent brightness of a star?
What is distance? - the farther away a star is, the smaller and dimmer it appears
The size of the moon compared to the Earth
What is about 1/4 the size of the Earth?
meaning of "waning"
What is shrinking?
The moon is fat, but not full. The light is on the right.
What is Waxing Gibbous?
How do stars appear to move all night?
What is stars appear to rise in the East and set in the West
The three characteristics that can affect the apparent brightness of a star.
What is- how far it is, how big it is, and how hot it is?
Why can we only see one side of the moon from Earth?
What is the moon has a "tidally locked" orbit. It takes the moon the same amount of time to make one spin as it takes for it to make one orbit around Earth.
meaning of "gibbous"
What is swollen or fat?
The moon is skinny and curved (like a banana).The light is on the left.
What is Waning Crescent?
What causes the stars apparent motion at night?
What is the rotation of the earth (spin) causes the stars to appear to move across the sky at night
What causes us to see different constellations at different times of the year?
What is as the Earth revolves around the sun the night sky faces different directions?
How the Earth got its moon
What is most likely through a giant collision
Why moon appears to change shape
What is - the moon is always half lit? As the moon revolves around the earth, we see the lit part from different angles.
We see the moon as half of a circle. The light is on the left.
What is Third Quarter (or Last Quarter)?