Space FC Flashcards
What Is Space
It is and area beyond earth’s atmosphere.
What Is a Star
They are huge glowing balls of gas.
What Is A Telescope
It is a tool that uses lenses and mirrors to collect and focus light so that objects in space can be seen more clearly.
What is a Satellite
Its a object that orbits another object in space.
What is a Space Prob
They are uncrewed vehicles that are used to collect information to send bact to Earth.
What is a Astronomical Unit ( AU )
Is the average distance from the Sun to Earth, or 1 Au is 93 million miles.
What is a Inner Planet
They are small and rocky like Earth.
What are Outer Planets
They are huge and mostly made out of gas.
What is the Asteroid Belt
A band of asteroids that orbit together in this part of the solar system.
What are Asteroids
An asteroid is a huge chunk of irregular shaped rocks that orbit the Sun between the inner and outer planets.
What are Dwarf Planets
They have round bodies that orbit the Sun.
What are Comets
They are small bodies made of lumps of rock, metal, and dust covered with ice.
What are Craters
A saucer-shaped hole formed when asteroids or meteorites strike a planet’s or moons surface.
What is a constellation
Groups of stars that form images.
What is a light year
Its the distance light travels in one Earth year.
