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Question 1

What is the universe?

Answer 1

The universe is everything. It includes all of space and all the matter and energy that space contains

Question 2

What is the Milky Way?

Answer 2

A huge collection of stars, dust and gas

Question 3

What is the sun?

Answer 3

The sun is the star at the Center of the solar system.

Question 4

What is nuclear fusion?

Answer 4

The power that fuels the sun and the stars

Question 5

What is the white dwarf?

Answer 5

The stellar core left behind after a dying star has exghausted its nuclear fuel and expelled its outer layers to form a planetary nebula.

Question 6

What is the black hole?

Answer 6

A place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out

Question 7

What are the planets made of?

Answer 7

The sun and the planets were formed from a swirling cloud of dust and gas

Question 8

What are the features of mercury?

Answer 8

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and is very hot

Question 9

What is elliptical?

Answer 9

When orbits orbit in a oval

Question 10

What are the features of Venus?

Answer 10

Venus is the hottest planet because the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere creates a green house effect and helps to hold in heat energy.

Question 11

What are the features of earth?

Answer 11

Earth is the only planet which can support our life form because the temperature in the earths surface is not too hot or cold

Question 12

What are the features of mars?

Answer 12

Mars is a rocky mountainous planet that looks
Red and is often called the red planet

Question 13

What are the features of Jupiter?

Answer 13

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system

Question 14

What are the features of Saturn?

Answer 14

Saturn, like Jupiter is made Mainly of hydrogen and helium

Question 15

What are the features of Uranus?

Answer 15

Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel. Little was known about the planet until 1986 when voyager 2 passed close to it.

Question 16

What are the features of Neptune?

Answer 16

Neptune was not discovered until 1846 because it is so far away from earth and too difficult to see with telescopes

Question 17

What are asteroids?

Answer 17

Small, rocky objects that orbit the sun.

Question 18

What are meteoroids?

Answer 18

Lumps of rock or iron that orbit the sun

Question 19

What are meteor showers?

Answer 19

A transient rain of meteors ,such as the perseids, occurring at regular intervals and coming from a particular region in the sky.

Question 20

What are comets?

Answer 20

Cosmic snowballs of frozen gases,rock, and dust that orbit the sun

Question 21

What is a leap day ?

Answer 21

Additional 24hrs are built into the calendar to ensure that it stays in line with the earths movement around the sun.

Question 22

What is a leap year?

Answer 22

When there is a leap day in the year, the year is called a leap year

Question 23

What is a natural satellite?

Answer 23

The moon

Question 24

What is lunar eclipse?

Answer 24

Occurs when the sun, Earth and moon align so that the moon passes into earths shadow

Question 25

What is the solar eclipse?

Answer 25

Occurs when the moon passes between the sun and earth , casting the moons shadow on earth

Question 26

What is geostationary orbit?

Answer 26

A type of geosynchronous orbit of a satellite whereby it moves with the same speed as the rotation do the earth