Space

Question 1

What are the rocky planets and what are the gas giants?

Answer 1

Planets are mercury Venus Earth and Mars. The gas giants are Neptune Uranus Saturn and Jupiter.

Question 2

How are comets meteors and astroids different?

Answer 2

A meteor burns up in earths atmosphere, an astroid is a small non-spherical object leftover debris from the solar system formation, a comet is an object made mostly of ice and dust.

Question 3

What are the layers of the sun?

Answer 3

Core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, corona.

Question 4

Which layer of the sun is visible in a solar eclipse?

Answer 4

The corona

Question 5

How is energy produced in the sun?

Answer 5

Nuclear fusion

Question 6

Describe what causes night and day

Answer 6

The earth rotating around its axis

Question 7

Describe what causes seasons.

Answer 7

Seasons are caused by the tilt of the earths axis.

Question 8

What is the summer solstice?

Answer 8

Summer solstice is the longest day of the year it occurs June 20 or June 21 and March the beginning of summer.

Question 9

What is vernal equinox?

Answer 9

Occurs on March 20 in the spring and it is a day that last 12 hours in a night that last 12 hours.

Question 10

Explain why there a different phases of the moon.

Answer 10

Because of the relative position of the earth sun and moon.

Question 11

Identify different shapes of the phases of the moon.

Answer 11

New moon, waxing crescent, waxing quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, waning quarter, waning crescent.

Question 12

What is it called when the moon is between the earth and the sun

Answer 12

Solar eclipse

Question 13

What is it called when the earth is between the moon and the sun?

Answer 13

Lunar eclipse

Question 14

Describe the life cycle of medium, large, and very large stars.

Answer 14

A star fuses hydrogen to produce helium in the main sequence phase of a star.

Question 15

Characteristics of stars

Answer 15

Colour, temperature, size, brightness, composition

Question 16

List the hottest colour of star to the coolest

Answer 16

Blue, red, yellow.

Question 17

Describe the difference between apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude.

Answer 17

Absolute magnitude it how bright a star is and apparent magnitude is how bright a star appears from Earth.

Question 18

Explain why a star could have an absolute magnitude that is greater than its apparent magnitude.

Answer 18

A star could be bright but not appear as bright because it is further away from Earth.

Question 19

Describe the difference between circumpolar and seasonal constellations.

Answer 19

Circumpolar constellations can always be seen from the North and South Pole and seasonal constellations can only be seen in certain months depending on where the Earth is in its orbit.

Question 20

Can circumpolar constellations be seen everywhere on earth

Answer 20

No they can only be seen in the North and south poles not in the Equator

Question 21

What is azimuth?

Answer 21

Azimuth is the angular distance around the horizon between North and the horizon clockwise.

Question 22

What is altitude?

Answer 22

Azimuth is the angular distance above the horizon to the object.