Earth's Moon
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pg 14
How many moons does Earth have?
What is one moon.
What are the 5 outer planets?
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
These make distant objects look bigger.
What is a telescope.
The spinning movement of the Earth is called?
What is rotation.
What are the changing views of the moon called?
What are phases.
How far is the moon from Earth?
What is 240,000 miles.
The second largest planet in the solar system.
What is Saturn.
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Who is Neil Armstrong.
The United States is in which hemisphere?
What is the Northern Hemisphere.
What are the vehicles used to explore space called?
What are spacecraft?
What are the changes in water levels called?
What are tides.
It takes this planet 84 years to orbit the sun.
What is Uranus.
What do we call people who travel in space?
What is an astronaut.
What is a year?
The amount of time it takes a planet to orbit the sun.
Exactly, how long is a year on Earth?
A year is exactly 365 1/4 days.
What is the brightest object in the sky at night?
What is the moon.
What planet has a day that lasts less than 10 hours?
What is Jupiter.
This spacecraft took pictures of the outer planets.
What is Voyager.
Which direction does the Earth spin towards?
What is the east.
How are the outer planets different than Earth?
They are very cold and made of gas.
An object in space that orbits another object in space is called what?
What is a satellite.
What planets did scientist discover using mathematics?
What are Neptune and Pluto.
Where is Voyager now?
What is traveling beyond our solar system.
What causes seasons on Earth?
What is the movement around the sun and the tilt of Earth.
What does 24/7/365 mean?
24 hours/7 days a week/365 days in a year.