Space Cards L4

Question 1

What is a satellite?

Answer 1

An object that orbits a star or planet

Question 2

Name a natural satellite

Answer 2

The moon

Question 3

Name an artificial satellite

Answer 3

ISS, any communication satellite

Question 4

How do we see the moon?

Answer 4

Light reflects from the Sun into our eyes

Question 5

What is a solar system?

Answer 5

A group of objects (including planets) that orbit a star

Question 6

What is a comet?

Answer 6

Lumps of ice that orbit the Sun

Question 7

What is a meteor?

Answer 7

Dust and rock that orbit the sun

Question 8

What is a meteorite?

Answer 8

A meteor that lands on Earth

Question 9

What is a galaxy?

Answer 9

A collection of billions of stars and planets

Question 10

Which galaxy are we in?

Answer 10

The Milky Way

Question 11

What is our nearest galaxy

Answer 11

Andromeda

Question 12

Billions of galaxies make up the ?

Answer 12

Universe

Question 13

What is the name given to a squashed circle?

Answer 13

Ellipse

Question 14

Name the planets in order

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What are the outer planets called?

Answer 15

Gas giants

Question 16

State two features of the gas planets

Answer 16

They are large and they are cold

Question 17

What are the inner planets called?

Answer 17

Terrestrial planets

Question 18

State one feature of the terresterial planets

Answer 18

They are made of rock

Question 19

What is the asteroid belt made of?

Answer 19

Pieces of rock

Question 20

Where is the asteroid belt found?

Answer 20

Between Mars and Jupiter

Question 21

What is a day?

Answer 21

The time taken for a planet to spin on it’s axis

Question 22

How long is a day on Earth?

Answer 22

24 hours

Question 23

What is a year?

Answer 23

The time taken for a planet to orbit the Sun

Question 24

How long is a year on Earth?

Answer 24

365 days (and a quarter!)

Question 25

Where does the Sun rise?

Answer 25

East

Question 26

Where does the Sun set?

Answer 26

West

Question 27

Is the Sun higher in the sky in winter or summer?

Answer 27

Summer

Question 28

What causes the different seasons?

Answer 28

The Earth being tilted towards the Sun (summer) or the Earth being tilted away from the Sun (winter)

Question 29

Why is it warmer in summer?

Answer 29

As the Earth is tilted towards the Sun, the rays are more concentrated

Question 30

What do scientists call a group of stars?

Answer 30

Constellation

Question 31

Why does the moon change shape?

Answer 31

As the moon rotates around the Earth, we see different amounts of the Sun being reflected off the moon

Question 32

Name the four key phases of the moon

Answer 32

New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Third Quarter

Question 33

Why does a solar eclipse occur?

Answer 33

As the moon blocks light from the Sun

Question 34

What is the umbra?

Answer 34

The shadow where you will see a total eclipse

Question 35

What is the penumbra?

Answer 35

The shadow where you will see a partical eclipse

Question 36

Why does a lunar eclipse occur?

Answer 36

As the Earth blocks light from the Sun