Earth
The earth revolves around the...
What is Sun?
The moon stays in its path around earth because of...
What is gravity?
Rotation
What is spinning around one's axis?
When the moon changes appearance as it orbits the earth...
What are phases of the moon?
First American to orbit the Earth?
Who is John Glenn?
How long does it take the earth to spin once on its axis?
24 hours
When the earth casts a shadow on the moon, there is a...
What is a lunar eclipse?
Gravity is....
What is the force of attraction between any two objects?
During these phases of the moon, only the right side of the moon is being illuminated (lit).
What are the WAXING phases?
New Horizons, a space probe, left Earth in 2007 and reached this now-demoted planet in 2015
What is Pluto?
The Earth's mass is _________ than the moon's mass.
What is larger, greater, bigger, etc?
This is the regular rising and falling of the earth's major bodies of water due to the gravitational pull of the Moon.
What are tides?
Revolution
What is orbiting around another object, such as the Sun?
This is the phase of the moon when the earth is between the sun and the moon; and the moon is the most visible.
What is the full moon?
During a solar eclipse, you should not look at this object without UV protection
What is the Sun?
This is how many days it takes Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
It takes this long for the moon to spin once on its axis.
What is about 29 days?
Meteoroid
What is a rocky object found in space?
During this phase of the moon, only the last, left sliver of the moon is visible.
What is the WANING CRESCENT?
Sputnik 1 was
What is the Soviet Union's (and the world's) first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth?
This is the measurement of the tilt of the earth's axis.
What is 23 1/2 degrees?
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission was the first to have two men walk on the moon. What was one of their names?
Buzz Aldrin or Neil Armstrong
Asteroid belt
What is a field of rocks located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
This is the phase of the moon when the moon is between the sun and the earth and is the least visible
What is the new moon?
The leading theory for the formation of the universe, which is said to begin with a large explosion
What is the Big Bang Theory?