Space

Question 1

What is the order of the eight planets?

Answer 1

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Question 2

What do you call an object that orbits a planet?

Answer 2

A moon.

Question 3

What is meant by a light year?

Answer 3

The distance light travels in one year.

Question 4

Why do we have day and night?

Answer 4

The Earth spins on its axis.

Question 5

Why do we have seasons?

Answer 5

The Earth’s axis it titled. As we orbit the Sun, if we are tilted towards the Sun, the rays are concentrated making it hotter.

Question 6

What happens at a new moon?

Answer 6

The Sun is behind the moon, so no moon is visible in the sky.

Question 7

How is a new moon different to a lunar eclipse?

Answer 7

You see the side of the Moon that is not lit by the Sun when you see a new moon but in an eclipse the Moon is in the shadow of the Earth.

When you see a new moon, the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun. When you see an eclipse the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun.

Question 8

Why do planets and moons orbit in circles?

Answer 8

They feel a gravitational force, that constantly changes their direction.