Word Work 1
Everything in space including Earth, our solar system, and all of the stars and other space objects that exist.
What is universe?
The name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
I provide all the heat and energy for the Earth.
What is the sun?
Groups of stars that appear to make a picture of an animal, person, or object.
What are constellations?
I am a picture that a group of stars appears to make in the night sky.
What is a constellation?
An object's center or rocky center.
What is the core?
This is what stars are.
What is hot, distant, and made of gas?
I am the third planet from the sun.
What is the Earth?
When something is growing in size.
What is expanding?
I am a scientific explanation for how the universe began.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
When something is very cold it is _______.
What is frigid?
What are comets, asteroids, and meteoroids?
I am made up of the sun, and all eight planets, including Earth, as well as other celestial bodies.
What is the solar system?
Having the Earth as the center.
What is geocentric?
I theorized that the sun was at the center of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Something is uneven or not regular in shape, size, or a particular characteristic.
What is irregular?
During a solar eclipse, the moon moves between the sun and Earth and ______.
What is block's the sun's light from reaching Earth?
I am made up of stars, gas, and dust, and your solar system is a part of me. I am spiral shaped.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
Having the sun as the center.
What is heliocentric?
I was the first African-American woman to travel into space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
A force created by the mass of an object that attracts another object to it.
What is gravity?
Gravity is _______ if objects are farther away from each other.
What is weaker?
I am a force of attraction that brings two objects together; I keep you on the surface of Earth.
What is gravity?
A special achievement, success, accomplishment, or victory.
What is triumph?
I am the name of the mission during which astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first landed on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?