Solar System

Question 1

What is the Big Bang Theory?

Answer 1

All the energy in matter in the universe was compressed into a very tiny space, which exploded and began to expand.

Question 2

What is cosmology

Answer 2

The study of space.

Question 3

What is the Goldilocks zone?

Answer 3

It is the only habitable zone for life in our solar system.

Question 4

What is the order of the planets?
(my very educated mother just served us nachos)

Answer 4

Mercury Venus Earth mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune.

Question 5

What is 1 year one year on earth?

Answer 5

365 and 1/4 days

Question 6

What is one day on earth?

Answer 6

The length of time for earth to rotate on its axis.

Question 7

What is a satellite?

Answer 7

And an object that orbits a planet

Question 8

What happens in the waning stage?

Answer 8

the moon goes darker- full moon to new moon

Question 9

What is a natural satellite?

Answer 9

Not man-made​

Question 10

What is an artificial satellite?

Answer 10

Man-made.

Question 11

What are all the gas planets?
(Descrition)

Answer 11

Furthest four from the sun
Lots of moons each.
Bigger than the rocky planets.
Made of hydrogen and helium.

Question 12

What happens in the waning stage?

Answer 12

the moon goes darker- full moon to new moon

Question 13

What happens in the waxing stage?

Answer 13

The moon gets lighter- new moon to full moon

Question 14

What are the stages of the moon?
(waxing and waning)

Answer 14

Waning: Gibbous, 3/4, cresent and new

Waxing: Cresent, 1/4, gibbous, full

Question 15

What phase is the moon in if the right side is lit up?

Answer 15

Waxing-getting smaller

Question 16

What phase is the moon in if the left side is lit up

Answer 16

Waning-getting bigger

Question 17

What is a solar eclipse?
(order)

Answer 17

Sun-moon-earth.

Question 18

What is a lunar eclipse?

Answer 18

Sun-earth-moon.

Question 19

When the moon is in the apogee of its orbit, it is:

Answer 19

Furthest from the earth

Question 20

When the moon is in the perigee of its orbit, it is:

Answer 20

closest to the earth

Question 21

The penumbra of an eclipse is:

Answer 21

The partially shaded bit-partial eclipse

Question 22

The umbra of an eclipse is:

Answer 22

The fully shaded bit​-total eclipse

Question 23

what is the heliocentric model

Answer 23

sun was the centre of the universe

Question 24

What is the Geocentric model?

Answer 24

earth was the centre of the universe.

Question 25

Who suggested the geocentric model?

Answer 25

Ptolemy

Question 26

Who suggested the heliocentric model?

Answer 26

Aristarchus

Question 27

Who made the geocentric solar system model.

Answer 27

Heraclides

Question 28

who reinvented the heliocentric model

Answer 28

Copernicus