Moon/space

Question 1

the circular path of an object as it revolves around another object due to gravity

Answer 1

Orbit

Question 2

The sun and its family of orbiting planets, and moons, and other objects

Answer 2

Solar system

Question 3

Millions or billions of stars held together in a group by their own gravity

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Galaxy

Question 4

Space and all the matter and energy in it

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Universe

Question 5

An object that orbits a more massive object

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Satellite

Question 6

A round pit left behind on the surface of a planet or other body in space after another smaller object strikes the surface

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Impact crater

Question 7

An imaginary line about which a turning body such as earth rotates

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Axis of rotation

Question 8

The motion of one body around another, example of earth around the sun

Answer 8

Revolution

Question 9

One part of a pattern of temperature changes, and other weather trends over the course of the year

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Season

Question 10

In an orbit, a position and time in which sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemisphere

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Equinox

Question 11

In an orbit, a position and time during which ones hemisphere receives its maximum area of sunlight while the other hemisphere receives it minimum amount.

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Solstice

Question 12

A large dark plain of solidified lava on the moon

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Mare

Question 13

An event during which one object in space casts a shadow onto another

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Eclipse

Question 14

The dark central region of a shadow, such as the cone of complete shadow cast by an object

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Umbra

Question 15

The region of lighter shadow that may surround a dark central region. The spreading cone of lighter shadow cast by an object

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Penumbra

Question 16

Average distance from the sun which is approximately 93,000,000 miles or 150 million kilometers

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Astronomical Unit (AU)

Question 17

An oval or flattened circle

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Ellipse

Question 18

A planet that has a rocky surface

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Terrestrial planets

Question 19

A large plane that consists mostly of gases in a dense form

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Gas giant

Question 20

a small rocky body orbiting the sun.

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Asteroid

Question 21

A body that produce a coma of gas and dust, a small icy body that orbits the sun

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Comet

Question 22

a brief streak of light produced by the particle entering earths atmosphere at high speed

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Meteor

Question 23

A small object from outer space that passes through earths atmosphere and reaches the surface

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Meteorite

Question 24

Earth centered theory of the solar system

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Geocentric

Question 25

A sun centered theory of the solar system

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Heliocentric

Question 26

The force that objects exert on one another because of their mass

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Gravity

Question 27

The rise and fall of the ocean levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon

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Tide

Question 28

The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the moon

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Waxing

Question 29

(of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in si

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Waning

Question 30

(of the moon) having the observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.

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Gibbous moon

Question 31

the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon.

Answer 31

Crescent

Question 32

the phase of the moon in which its whole disk is illuminated.

Answer 32

Full moon

Question 33

the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent.

Answer 33

New moon

Question 34

Third Quarter. The moon is one-half illuminated by the sun. Occurs when the moon’sillumination is decreasing, Waning Crescent. The moon is less than one-half illuminated by the sun but less than one quarter illuminated

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Quarter moon