Solar System

Question 1

Asteroid

Answer 1

A small object that’s made of rock that orbits the sun.

Question 2

Astronomical unit

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Comet

Answer 3

A body of ice and dust that orbits the sun.

Question 4

Crater

Answer 4

A round pit left on a surface left by something that hit the surface.

Question 5

Crescent moon

Answer 5

A quarter of the moon is illuminated.

Question 6

Equinox

Answer 6

The time or date twice a year.

Question 7

Ellipse

Answer 7

An oval or flattened round object.

Question 8

Eclipse

Answer 8

It’s when the sun, moon, and moon all meet.

Question 9

Galaxy

Answer 9

A group of solar systems, gases, and dust are held together by gravity.

Question 11

Gas giant

Answer 11

Planets that are mostly gas.

Question 12

Gibbous moon

Answer 12

A moon that’s looks half illuminated but is less than full.

Question 13

Geocentric

Answer 13

Having the earth as the center.

Question 14

Meteor

Answer 14

A streak of light in the sky.

Question 14

Meteorite

Answer 14

A piece of rock that strikes earth’s surface.

Question 15

Gravity

Answer 15

A force that’s in between two objects.

Question 16

Heliocentric

Answer 16

Sun centered in the solar system.

Question 17

Impact crater

Answer 17

A bowl shaped cavity in a planet’s ground.

Question 18

Orbit

Answer 18

Its where a planet goes in a circle around the sun.

Question 19

Mare

Answer 19

Astronomers mistook them for oceans.

Question 21

New moon

Answer 21

The entire surface of the moon isn’t illuminated.

Question 22

Solar system

Answer 22

It’s where the sun and planets are.

Question 23

Quarter moon

Answer 23

Half of the moon is illuminated.

Question 24

Penumbra

Answer 24

Region of lighter shadow that might surround a dark central region.

Question 25

Revolution

Answer 25

The orbiting of a planet around another planet.

Question 26

Satellite

Answer 26

An artificial object that orbits around another thing in space.

Question 27

Rotation

Answer 27

The spinning of a celestial body such as a planet.

Question 28

Season

Answer 28

A period of the year on a planet.

Question 29

Solstice

Answer 29

It’s when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point.

Question 32

Terrestrial planet

Answer 32

A planet that is rocky or bumpy.

Question 33

Umbra

Answer 33

The dark part of a sunspot.

Question 33

Tides

Answer 33

The rise and fall of the oceans by the gravitational pull of the sun and EARTH.

Question 34

Universe

Answer 34

Everything that exists in and on the Earth.

Question 34

Waxing moon

Answer 34

It’s when the moon changes or it’s also called the lunar phase.

Question 34

Wannig

Answer 34

The gradual decrease of the moon.