Astrology

Question 1

What does astronomical unit mean?

Answer 1

A unit of length equal to the mean distance from the Earth to th Sun or the Sun to the Earth.

Question 2

What is a light year?

Answer 2

The distance that light traveled in one solar year.

Question 3

What is the cause of a parsec?

Answer 3

A unit of distance required to cause a heliocentricparallax.

Question 4

What is a nebula?

Answer 4

A cloud made up of intersteller gas and dust.

Question 5

What is a constellation?

Answer 5

The position of the stars that influence various events.

Question 6

What does planetesimal form?

Answer 6

One of the smallest celestial bodies that were fused together to form the planets of our solar system.

Question 7

What is protoplanetary?

Answer 7

It is the proccess in wich matter goes through condensation to form a planet.

Question 8

What does nuclear fusion mean?

Answer 8

A thermoonuclear reaction where nuclei of light atoms join to form nuclei of heavier atoms.

Question 9

What are the four terrestrial planets?

Answer 9

Any of the 4 planets close to the sun: Mercury,Venus,Earth,and Mars.

Question 10

What are gas giant planets?

Answer 10

Planets mostly made up of gases sorrounding a rocky core.

Question 11

What is a comet?

Answer 11

A celestial body moving aroud the sun.

Question 12

What is an asteroid?

Answer 12

Small bodies of planets from 480 miles to less than one mile.

Question 13

What do cosmologist study?

Answer 13

People that study the general structure and evolution of the universe.

Question 14

What is Angular velocity?

Answer 14

The time of change of angular position of a body of rocks.

Question 15

What is an orbit?

Answer 15

The curved path of something around the celestial body of the sun or a planet.

Question 16

What does period mean?

Answer 16

A round of time or series in wich time is measured.

Question 17

Wich way does the earth revolve?

Answer 17

The Earth rotates counter clockwise around the sun. The rotation a planet around the sun.

Question 18

What is the rotaion of the moon?

Answer 18

Counter clockwise faster than the Earth.The act of something rotating.

Question 19

What is a sidereal day?

Answer 19

A day 4 minutes shorter than the mean of a solar day.

Question 20

What is a solar day?

Answer 20

The period of time from sunrise to sunset on our planet.

Question 21

What is a year?

Answer 21

A time period of 365 or 366 days in 12 months.

Question 22

What is Accretion?

Answer 22

It is an increase by natural growth in size or extend.

Question 23

What is a spring tide?

Answer 23

The highest rise and fall at or after a full or new moon.

Question 24

What is a Neap tide?

Answer 24

A neap tide is when the tides are at there lowest altitude.Or their difference is low.

Question 25

What is eccentricity?

Answer 25

An oddity or peculirty.

Question 26

What is a coma in science?

Answer 26

The nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet.

Question 27

What is precession?

Answer 27

The slow concial motion of the rotation of the Earth.

Question 28

What is an orbital planet?

Answer 28

The orbital surface of the maxilla.

Question 29

What is inclination?

Answer 29

Deviation or amount of deviation.

Question 30

What is solar wind?

Answer 30

An emination from the sun’s corona consisting of a flow of charge particles.

Question 31

What is a meteoroid?

Answer 31

Any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space.

Question 32

What is a meteor?

Answer 32

A meteoroid that entered the norths athmosphere.

Question 33

What is a meteorite?

Answer 33

A mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space.