Solar Sytem And Beyond Lesson 2 Patterns Of The Moon Flashcards
A natural or artiticial object in space that circles around another object
Satellite
The appearance of the shape of the moon at a particular time
Phase
The regular rise and fall of the water level along a shoreline
Tide
A blocking of the suns light that happened when earth passes through the moons shawdow
Solar eclipse
A situation that occurs when earth the sun the moon are in a straight line and earths shadow falls across the moon
Lunar eclipse
One of many small rocky objects between mars and Jupiter
Asteroid
A chunk of rock from space that travels through earths atmosphere
Meteor
A mixture of ice frozen gases rock and dust left over from the formation of the solar system
Comet
An object in space that produces its own energy, including heat and light
Star
A huge cloud of gas and dust in space that is the first stage of star formation
Nebula
An object whose gravity is so strong that light cannot escape it
Black hole
The distance light travels in a year
Light year
A star that can no longer turn helium into carbon it’s cools and shrink becoming very small and dense
White dwarf
Any of the patterns that are formed by a group of stars in the night sky
Constellation
A star that has produced more energy than gravity can hold together and has exploded
Supernova
As the earth revolves around the sun the Revolves around the earth
Moon
The moon orbit around the earth takes
29 days
The apparent shapes of the moon are called
Phases
Phase is when you can’t see the moon at all
New moon
Phases is almost a full moon
Gibbous moon
Phase is when u see a sliver of the moon
Crescent
Phase is when the moon appears smaller
Waning
Phase is when the moon appears larger
Waxing
The moons gravitational pull causes the tides and it happen twice a day and the rise and fall of the tides are called a. B. And
High tide and low tide
Are small rocky or metallic object that orbits the sun in both the inner and outer regions of the solar system
Meteoroids
Is a mentor that hits the earths surface
Meteorites
The head of a comet is made up of. And nucleus
Coma
A is formed when the heat from the suns rays pushes some of the coma away from the comet
Glowing tail
Stars have different colors occur because of the surface of each star
Temperature
Sun temperature makes it look
Yellow
Cooler stars appear. Or
Red or orange
Warmer stars appear
White or blue
The sun is about yrs old
5 billion
It takes 8 minutes forrr to reach earth
Light
Astronomers use. To describe the great distance between stars
Light-stars
Constellation are named after. Or objects
Animals, fictional characters
There are constellation
88
Travelers can use big dripped or the Little Dipper to find. Which tells u which direction is
Polaris north
The sun contains 99% of the solar system total
Mass
92% of the sun is made up of. Gas
Hydrogen
Are the sudden release of energy from the sun’s atmosphere
Solar flares
