Space Vocab😭

Question 1

the path of an object in space as it moves around another object due to gravity

Answer 1

Orbit❣

Question 2

the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.

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Solar System💕

Question 3

millions or billions of stars held together in a group by their own gravity

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Galaxy🌌

Question 4

Space and all of the space and energy in it

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Universe🕋

Question 5

an object that orbits a more massive object

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Satellite⚙

Question 6

a round pit left behind on a planet or other body of space left behind on a surface

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Impact Crater💎

Question 7

the straight line through all fixed points of a rotating rigid body around which all other points of the body move in circles

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Axis of Rotation🎍

Question 8

an instance of revolving

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Revolution🕸

Question 9

One part of the temperature changes other weather trends over the courses of a year

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Season🎋

Question 10

In an orbit a position and time in which sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. A time of the year when daylight and darkness are nearly equal for most parts of earth.

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Equinox🌫

Question 11

In an orbit, a position and time during which one hemisphere receives its maximum area of sunlight while the other hemisphere receives its minimum amount. The time of the year when the days are either longest or shortest.

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Solstice🏟

Question 12

a large dark plain of solidified lava on the moon

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Mare🗑

Question 13

An event during which one object in space casts a shadow onto another

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Eclipse🎆

Question 14

The dark central region of a shadow such as the cone of complete shadow cast by an object

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Umbra🏝

Question 15

A region of lighter shadow that may surround a dark central region. The spreading cone of lighter shadow cast by an object

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Penumbra☪

Question 16

Average distance from the sun which is approximately 93,000,000 million kilometers

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Astronomical unit❇️

Question 17

An oval or flattened circle

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Ellipse💯

Question 18

A planet that has a rocky surface

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Terrestrial Planet🔵

Question 19

A large plane that consists

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Gas Giant♨️

Question 20

A small solid rocky body that orbits the sun

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Asteroid🔴

Question 21

a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.

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Comet⚫️

Question 22

a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth’s atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light

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Meteor🌺

Question 23

a meteor that survives its passage through the earth’s atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground. More than 90 percent of meteorites are of rock, while the remainder consist wholly or partly of iron and nickel.

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Meteorite🌎

Question 24

Earth centered theory of the solar system

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Geocentric⭐️

Question 25

A sun centered theory of the solar system

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Heliocentric☄

Question 26

The force that objects exert on one another because of their mass

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Gravity🌪

Question 27

The rise and fall of the ocean levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon

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Tide🌊

Question 28

(of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.

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Waxing ➡️

Question 29

(of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size

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Waning ⬅️

Question 30

a moon in between a half-moon but less than a full moon, or something that protrudes or creates an obvious bulge.

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Gibbous Moon🌒🌓🌔

Question 31

a thing that has has the shape of a single curve, especially one that is broad in the center and tapers to a point at each end.

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Crescent Moon🌘🌒

Question 32

the phase of the moon in which its whole disk is illuminated.

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Full Moon🌕

Question 33

the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent

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New Moon🌑

Question 34

The moon is less than one-half illuminated by the sun but less than one quarter illuminated. Occurs when the moon’s illumination is increasing, First Quarter. The moon is one-half illuminated by the sun.

Answer 34

Quarter Moon🌓🌗