Planet Vocabulary

Question 1

Orbit

Answer 1

An circular path of an object as it revolves around another object

Question 2

Solar system

Answer 2

A system of objects that revolve around a star

Question 3

Galaxy

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Universe

Answer 4

Space and all the energy in it

Question 5

Satellite

Answer 5

An object that moves an massive object

Question 6

Impact crater

Answer 6

A Round pit left behind on the surface of a planet or an other body in space

Question 7

Axis of rotation

Answer 7

An imaginary line about which turning body such as earth rotates

Question 8

Revolution

Answer 8

The motion of one body around the other such as earths and its orbit around the sun

Question 9

Season

Answer 9

On part of tempture changes and other weather trends over the course of the year

Question 10

Equinox

Answer 10

In a orbit of portion and the time in wich sunlight shines equally on the northern and Southern Hemisphere a fine of the year when daylight and darkness are nearly equal for most parts of earth

Question 11

Solstice

Answer 11

In a orbit during wich and the hemisphere recives maximum area of sunlight while the other hemisphere review minimum of sunlight. The time of year when days are earthier longest or shortest

Question 12

Mare

Answer 12

A dark plain of solid field lava on The moon

Question 13

Eclipse

Answer 13

An event wich one object in space cast a shadow onto another

Question 14

Umbra

Answer 14

A dark region of shadow such as the cone of complete shadow cast by an object

Question 15

Penumbra

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Astronomical Unit (AU)

Answer 16

Average distance from the sun wich is approximately 93,000,000 or 150 kilometers

Question 17

Ellipse

Answer 17

An oval or flattened circle.

Question 18

Terrestrial Planet

Answer 18

A planet with a rocky surface

Question 19

Gas giant

Answer 19

A large planet that consist mostly of gases in dense form

Question 20

Astroid

Answer 20

A small solid rocky body that orbits the sun.

Question 21

Comet

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Meteor

Answer 22

A brief streak of light produced by a particle entering earth

Question 23

Meteorite

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Geocentric

Answer 24

Earths centered thery of the solar system

Question 25

Heliocentric

Answer 25

The suns ce there theroy of the solar system

Question 26

Gravity

Answer 26

The force that objects excert another because of their mass.

Question 27

Tide

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Waxing

Answer 28

A gradual increase of the illumine surface of the moon

Question 29

Wanig

Answer 29

A gradual decrease In the illumeted surface of the moon

Question 30

Gibbous

Answer 30

More then half but less than fully illuminated

Question 31

Moon

Answer 31

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth, being Earth’s only permanent natural satellite.

Question 32

Crescent

Answer 32

The crescent symbol is primarily used to represent the Moon, not necessarily in a particular lunar phase. When used to represent a waxing or waning lunar phase, “crescent” or “increscent” refers to the waxing first quarter, while the symbol representing the waning final quarter is called “decrescent”.

Question 33

Full moon

Answer 33

The time interval between similar lunar phases—the synodic month—averages about 29.53 days. Therefore, in those lunar calendars in which each month begins on the new moon, the full moon falls on either the 14th or 15th of the lunar month.

Question 34

New moon

Answer 34

In astronomy, new moon is the first phase of the Moon, when it orbits as seen from the Earth, the moment when the Moon and the Sun have the same ecliptical longitude. The Moon is not visible [note 1] at this time except when it is seen in silhouette during a solar eclipse when it is illuminated by earthshine.

Question 35

Quarter moon

Answer 35

As the moon waxes (the amount of illuminated surface as seen from Earth is increasing), the lunar phases progress through new moon, crescent moon, first-quarter moon, gibbous moon, and full moon.