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100
The sun is a ball of hot gases that give off energy. This is also known as what?
What is a star?
100
This is a bowl-shaped pit usually found on the Moon.
What is a crater?
100
It takes this long for the Earth to rotate around one time on its axis.
What is one day?
100
These are star patterns in the sky.
What are constellations?
100
Astronauts wear this to survive in outer space.
What is a space suit?
200
Almost all living things depend on the Sun for food, heat, and light. Without the Sun we wouldn't have this.
What is life on Earth?
200
This is a force that pulls two or more objects toward each other.
What is gravity?
200
It takes this long for the Earth to revolve around the sun one time.
What is one year?
200
This is the name for the one star that does not appear to move in the sky (when looking at it from Earth).
What is Polaris or the North Star?
200
Unlike the Sun, the Moon and Earth do not produce this on its own.
What is light?
300
True or False: The sun has magnetic forces.
What is true?
300
This is a chunk of rock or metal that has fallen from space.
What is a meteorite?
300
This is a make-believe line that runs through the Earth's North and South Poles.
What is an axis?
300
Polaris is part of this constellation.
What is the Little Dipper?
300
Because the Moon revolves around the Earth, we see changing shapes of the moon called ...
What are phases?
400
These are the dark spots on the sun.
What are sun spots?
400
True or False: The sky always looks dark from the Moon.
What is true?
400
This many moons could fit across the Earth.
What is four?
400
For hundreds of years, these people used Polaris to find their way home and steer different courses.
What are sailors?
400
People used these to tell time before clocks.
What are sun dials?
500
These are the bright spots on the sun.
What are sun flares?
500
The moon's gravity and pull effects what on Earth.
What is the daily tides?
500
From Earth, the Moon and Sun appear to be the same size. This one is bigger.
What is the Sun?
500
True or False: We see the same constellations in every season of the year.
What is false?
500
These were the first two moon walkers.
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?