Solar Sytem And Beyond Lesson 2 Patterns Of The Moon

Question 1

A natural or artiticial object in space that circles around another object

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Satellite

Question 2

The appearance of the shape of the moon at a particular time

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Phase

Question 3

The regular rise and fall of the water level along a shoreline

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Tide

Question 4

A blocking of the suns light that happened when earth passes through the moons shawdow

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Solar eclipse

Question 5

A situation that occurs when earth the sun the moon are in a straight line and earths shadow falls across the moon

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Lunar eclipse

Question 6

One of many small rocky objects between mars and Jupiter

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Asteroid

Question 7

A chunk of rock from space that travels through earths atmosphere

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Meteor

Question 8

A mixture of ice frozen gases rock and dust left over from the formation of the solar system

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Comet

Question 9

An object in space that produces its own energy, including heat and light

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Star

Question 10

A huge cloud of gas and dust in space that is the first stage of star formation

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Nebula

Question 11

An object whose gravity is so strong that light cannot escape it

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Black hole

Question 12

The distance light travels in a year

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Light year

Question 13

A star that can no longer turn helium into carbon it’s cools and shrink becoming very small and dense

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White dwarf

Question 14

Any of the patterns that are formed by a group of stars in the night sky

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Constellation

Question 15

A star that has produced more energy than gravity can hold together and has exploded

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Supernova

Question 16

As the earth revolves around the sun the Revolves around the earth

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Moon

Question 17

The moon orbit around the earth takes

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29 days

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The apparent shapes of the moon are called

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Phases

Question 19

Phase is when you can’t see the moon at all

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New moon

Question 20

Phases is almost a full moon

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Gibbous moon

Question 21

Phase is when u see a sliver of the moon

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Crescent

Question 22

Phase is when the moon appears smaller

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Waning

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Phase is when the moon appears larger

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Waxing

Question 24

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

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High tide and low tide

Question 25

Are small rocky or metallic object that orbits the sun in both the inner and outer regions of the solar system

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Meteoroids

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Is a mentor that hits the earths surface

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Meteorites

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The head of a comet is made up of. And nucleus

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Coma

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A is formed when the heat from the suns rays pushes some of the coma away from the comet

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Glowing tail

Question 29

Stars have different colors occur because of the surface of each star

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Temperature

Question 30

Sun temperature makes it look

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Yellow

Question 31

Cooler stars appear. Or

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Red or orange

Question 32

Warmer stars appear

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White or blue

Question 33

The sun is about yrs old

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5 billion

Question 34

It takes 8 minutes forrr to reach earth

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Light

Question 35

Astronomers use. To describe the great distance between stars

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Light-stars

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Constellation are named after. Or objects

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Animals, fictional characters

Question 37

There are constellation

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88

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Travelers can use big dripped or the Little Dipper to find. Which tells u which direction is

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Polaris north

Question 39

The sun contains 99% of the solar system total

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Mass

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92% of the sun is made up of. Gas

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Hydrogen

Question 41

Are the sudden release of energy from the sun’s atmosphere

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Solar flares