Solar System

Question 1

Orbit

Answer 1

the path of an object in space as it moves around another object due to gravity.

Question 2

Solar System

Answer 2

The sun and it ps family if orbiting planets and moons

Question 3

Galaxy

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Universe

Answer 4

Space and all the matter and energy in it.

Question 5

Satellite

Answer 5

An object that orbits a more massive object

Question 6

Impact Crater

Answer 6

A round our left behind on the surface of a planet after a smaller object strikes the surface.

Question 7

Axis of Rotation

Answer 7

An imaginary line about which a turning body such as Earth rotates.

Question 8

Revolution

Answer 8

the motion of one body around another, such as the Earth and its orbit around the sun.

Question 9

Seasons

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Equinox

Answer 10

In an orbit. A position and time in which sun shines equally on both hemispheres.

Question 11

Eclipse

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Tide

Answer 12

The rise and fall of the ocean’s surface levels due to the gravitational pull of the sun and moon.

Question 13

Asteroid

Answer 13

A small rock body that orbits the sun

Question 14

Gravity

Answer 14

The force that objects event on one another because of their mass.

Question 15

Meteor

Answer 15

A briefstreak of light produces by a participants, entering Earth’s atmosphere at high speed.

Question 16

Meteorite

Answer 16

A small object from outer space that passes through Earth’s atmosphere and reaches the surface.

Question 17

Geocentric

Answer 17

Earth’s centered theory of the solar system

Question 18

Heliocentric

Answer 18

A sun centered theory of the universe

Question 19

Comet

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Astronomical Unit (AU)

Answer 20

The average distance from the sun which is 93,000,000 miles.

Question 21

Waxing

Answer 21

The gravitational increase of the illuminated surface of the moon.

Question 22

Waning

Answer 22

The gradual decrease in the illuminated surface of the moon.

Question 23

Solstice

Answer 23

In a orbit. A position in time during which one hemisphere receives the maximum sunlight

Question 24

Umbra

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Penumbra

Answer 25

A region of lighter shadow that may surround a dark central region

Question 26

Terrestrial Planet

Answer 26

A planet that has a rocky surface

Question 27

Gas Giant

Answer 27

A large planet that contains mostly of gasses in dense form.

Question 28

Gibbous Moon

Answer 28

More than half but less than full is illuminated

Question 29

Crescent moon

Answer 29

A thin curved shape

Question 30

Full moon

Answer 30

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

Question 31

New Moon

Answer 31

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.

Question 32

Quarter Moon

Answer 32

Half of the moon’s surface is illuminated

Question 33

Ellipse

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Gas Giant

Answer 34

A large planet that contains mostly of gasses in dense form.