Astronomy

Question 1

Light areas on Moon

Answer 1

Highlands

Question 2

Dark areas on moon

Answer 2

Maria

Question 3

How old are the craters on the moon

Answer 3

4 billion

Question 4

What technology did we leave on the moon

Answer 4

seismograph

Question 5

Giant Impact Theory

Answer 5

formation of moon

Question 6

Revolution

Answer 6

year

Question 6

Rotation

Answer 6

Day

Question 7

How much is the earth tilted

Answer 7

23.5

Question 8

Causes seasons

Answer 8

Tilt

Question 9

Summer solstice the suns rays are 90 degrees to the..

Answer 9

Tropic of Cancer

Question 10

Winter solstice the suns rays are 90 degrees to the..

Answer 10

Tropic of Capricorn

Question 11

During the Equinox the axis is pointed towards….

Answer 11

The equator

Question 12

How many years for earth to wobble

Answer 12

2600

Question 13

What is earths wobble called

Answer 13

Precession

Question 14

When lit portion of moon is getting bigger

Answer 14

Waxing

Question 15

When lit portion is getting smaller

Answer 15

Waning

Question 16

Earths path around the sun is not smooth because

Answer 16

Pull of the moons gravity

Question 17

Moon rise changes how many minutes everyday

Answer 17

42 minutes

Question 18

What planet rains acid

Answer 18

Venus

Question 19

What planet has a retrograde rotation

Answer 19

venus and uranus

Question 20

What astronomer wrote math laws in reference to ellipses

Answer 20

Kepler

Question 21

What astronomer looked at Jupiter and proved the sun was at the center of the solar system

Answer 21

Galileo

Question 22

What astronomer looked at galaxies and said they were not just clouds of dust

Answer 22

Edwin Hubble

Question 23

Who incorrectly had us thinking earth was the center of Universe(geocentric)

Answer 23

Aristotle

Question 24

Who wrote Universal Law of Gravitation

Answer 24

Newton

Question 25

Object that burns when it hits our atmosphere

Answer 25

Meteor

Question 26

Object from space that hits our atmosphere

Answer 26

Meteorite

Question 27

What’s in the Kuiper Belt

Answer 27

Dwarf planets

Question 28

Whats in Oort cloud

Answer 28

Comet

Question 30

short period comets come around every ….. years

Answer 30

100

Question 31

What is an arching on the sun called

Answer 31

Prominence

Question 32

How are we affected by solar events on the sun

Answer 32

Northern lights, Disrupt satellites and technology

Question 33

Formula for fusion

Answer 33

E=MC2

Question 34

how much hydrogen is left in core of sun

Answer 34

50%

Question 35

stars and galaxies moving towards us is what shift

Answer 35

Blueshift

Question 36

Sun

Answer 36

8min

Question 37

Proxima Centauri

Answer 37

4.21ly

Question 38

Sirius

Answer 38

9ly

Question 39

Polaris

Answer 39

700ly

Question 40

Whats fusing in a Main Sequence Star

Answer 40

Hydrogen to Helium

Question 41

What surrounds a white dwarf

Answer 41

planetary nebula

Question 42

Whats fusingin a red giant star

Answer 42

Helium to Carbon

Question 43

When did big bang occur

Answer 43

13.8 billion years ago

Question 44

What instrument tells us that a star has hydrogen and helium

Answer 44

Spectrometer and puts it in colored bands