Astronomy current unit

Question 1

Panet:

Answer 1

Anything that orbits a star.

Question 2

Solar system:

Answer 2

The sun, planets, & various smaller bodies.

Star with planets

Question 3

Galaxy:

Answer 3

A group of millions, or billions of stars held together by their own gravity.

Question 4

Universe:

Answer 4

Everything-Space & all the matters & energy in it.

Question 5

Orbit:

Answer 5

Path of an object in space as it moves around another object because of gravity.

Question 6

Constellation:

Answer 6

A group of stars that form a patter in the sky.

Question 7

Electromagnetic Radiation:

Answer 7

Energy that travels across distances as certain types of waves/Energy from the sun.

Question 8

Telescope:

Answer 8

A device that gathers electromagnetic radiation.

Question 9

Reflecting telescope:

Answer 9

Uses mirrors

Question 10

Refracting telescope:

Answer 10

Uses lenses

Question 11

Spectrum:

Answer 11

A range of wavelengths.

Question 12

Wavelength:

Answer 12

The distance between two peeks.

Question 13

Satellite:

Answer 13

An object that orbits a more massive object.

Question 14

International Space Station:

Answer 14

Orbits the earth/satellite in which people live & work for long periods of time.

Question 15

Lander:

Answer 15

Lands & collects samples

Question 16

Probe:

Answer 16

Measures atmosphere before it explodes

Question 17

Orbiter:

Answer 17

Maps the surface

Question 18

Flyby:

Answer 18

Flys past planets & takes pictures

Question 19

Impact crater:

Answer 19

A whole in the ground from an exploding space rock.

Question 20

Axis of rotation:

Answer 20

Imaginary line that runs through the N & S pole

Question 21

Revolution:

Answer 21

Orbit

Question 22

Season:

Answer 22

Weather pattern

Question 23

Equinox:

Answer 23

Equal amount of sunlight in each hemisphere

Question 24

Solstice:

Answer 24

Max. & Min. amount of sunlight, one gets max., one gets min.

Question 25

Mare:

Answer 25

Lava filled crater

Question 26

Impact crater:

Answer 26

Meteor crashes & leaves a hole

Question 27

Eclipse:

Answer 27

One thing blocks another & casts a shadow

Question 28

Umbra:

Answer 28

Dark

Question 29

Penumbra:

Answer 29

Light

Question 30

Solar eclipse:

Answer 30

Suns blocked out

Question 31

Lunar eclipse:

Answer 31

Moons blocked out

Question 32

Waxing:

Answer 32

Growing/right side light up

Question 33

Waning:

Answer 33

Shrinking/left side light up

Question 34

How did the moon form?

Answer 34

Small planet crashed into earth & knocked the top off

Question 35

Spring tide:

Answer 35

Extra high, high tide Extra low, low tide

Question 36

Neap tide:

Answer 36

Not high/not low-even

Question 37

Astronomical unit:

Answer 37

Earths distance from the sun/93 million miles

Question 38

Ellipse:

Answer 38

Flattened circle or oval

Question 39

Terrestrial planet:

Answer 39

Earth like/4 planets closest to the sun

Question 40

Tectonics:

Answer 40

Mantle moves from under the crust

Question 41

Volcanism:

Answer 41

When the mantle goes up onto the surface

Question 42

Gas giant:

Answer 42

Hydrogen & helium

Question 43

Ring:

Answer 43

Ice chunks

Question 44

Asteroid:

Answer 44

Regular/space rock that orbits the sun

Question 45

Comet:

Answer 45

Irregular/made of ice & rock

Question 46

Meteor:

Answer 46

Burning in the atmosphere

Question 47

Meteoroid:

Answer 47

Rock in space

Question 48

Meteorite:

Answer 48

Space rock that landed

Question 49

Why are some space objects potato shaped?

Answer 49

They don't have enough mass for gravity to pull on the edges

Question 50

Fusion:

Answer 50

2 atoms combined to make a new one

Question 51

Convection:

Answer 51

Heat rises, cool sinks

Question 52

Corona:

Answer 52

Outermost layer, hottest layer of the atmosphere

Question 53

Sunspot:

Answer 53

Cooler spots on the photosphere

Question 54

Solar wind:

Answer 54

Stream of electrically charged particles that follows out in all directions

Question 55

Light year:

Answer 55

The distance light travels in 1 year

Question 56

Parallax:

Answer 56

Apparent jump

Question 57

Nebula:

Answer 57

Cloud of gas & dust

Question 58

Main sequence:

Answer 58

Fusing hydrogen into helium

Question 59

Neutron star:

Answer 59

12 miles wide/super dense

Question 60

Black hole:

Answer 60

Collapsed neutron star

Question 61

Quasar:

Answer 61

Seeming like a star, bright center of a distant galaxy

Question 62

Doppler effect:

Answer 62

When wavelengths get stretched or squeezed

Question 63

Big band theory:

Answer 63

When the universe started to expand out of an extremely hot, dense, state

Question 64

Bread dough theory:

Answer 64

As the bread rises, the raisins get further apart