The Stars and the sun
The moon
Vocabulary
Extra things
True or False
100
The sun classified as this.
What is a star?
100
This is how the moon gets its light
What is reflecting the sun's light?
100
The closest star to the earth.
What is the sun?
100
This is how long it takes the Earth to travel (revolve) around the Sun.
What is one year?
100
The sun is the largest star in the galaxy.
What is false?
*The sun just looks like the biggest but really it's only a medium sized star*
200
The reason the sun looks so big
What is because it is the closest star to Earth?
200
The changing shape of the moon throughout the month.
What is moon phases?
200
big balls of gas with different sizes and colors
What are stars?
200
A reddish star that is 700 times larger than our sun. It is one of the largest known stars and is about 600 light years away from us. It is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.
What is Antares?
200
Shadows move throughout the day because the Sun moves across the sky
What is true?
*but remember we are the ones moving. It only looks like the sun is moving
300
The side of the Earth facing the Sun has this.
What is day?
300
The night that will be the brightest
What is the 23rd?
300
the way the moon appears to change shapes in the sky
What is phases?
300
A device used to show what stars are visible at any given time of year.
What is a planisphere?
300
Stars can be blue, yellow, white or red.
What is true?
400
These are formed when the sun light cannot pass through an object.
What are shadows.
400
A blue-white star in the constellation Orion. It is also one of the brightest stars in the night sky. It's 40,000 times brighter than our sun but it is also 864 light years away.
What is Rigel?
400
The constant spinning of Earth on its axis that causes day and night
What is Earth's rotation?
400
This is the time a day when shadows are shortest.
What is midday or noon?
400
Red stars are the hottest stars.
What is false?
*Blue stars are the hottest!
500
The brightest star in the night sky. It is also 500,000 times further from us than the sun.
What is sirius?
500
An area around a star that is approximately the right distance to support liquid water on the surface of a planet.
What is a habitable zone?
500
A burst of high energy radiation made by the sun that can travel to Earth and interfere with cell phone reception and satellite communications.
What is solar flare?
500
A huge telescope in space launched in 2009 that is searching for planets outside our solar system. It looks for planets that are around the same size as Earth in the "habitable zone" of a star.
What is Kepler space telescope?
500
How far light can travel in 1 year.
What is a light year?
186,000 miles/second