Space Vocabulary

Question 1

Orbit

Answer 1

The circular part h of an object as it revolves around another object.

Question 2

Solar system

Answer 2

The sun and its family of orbiting planets and other objects.

Question 3

Galaxy

Answer 3

Millions and billions of stars held together by their own gravity.

Question 4

Universe

Answer 4

Space and all the matter and energy in it.

Question 5

Satellite

Answer 5

An object that orbits a more massive object.

Question 6

Impact Crater

Answer 6

A round object left behind on the surface of a planet after a smaller object hits it.

Question 7

Axis ofRotation

Answer 7

An imaginary line about which a turning body such as earth rotates.

Question 8

Revolution

Answer 8

The motion of one body around another object such as earth.

Question 9

Season

Answer 9

A period of a year determined by the position of earth as it revolves around the sun.

Question 10

Season

Answer 10

One of a pattern of tempature changes over a course of a year.

Question 11

Equinox

Answer 11

In an orbit where sun shines equally on both hemispheres .

Question 12

Solstice

Answer 12

In an orbit a position and time during which one hemisphere receives the maximum sunlight.

Question 13

Tide

Answer 13

The rise and fallof the ocean is caused by the moon

Question 14

Mare

Answer 14

The large dark plain of lava on the moon.

Question 15

Eclipse

Answer 15

An event where one object in space cast a shadow on another object.

Question 16

Umbra

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Penumbra

Answer 17

A region of lighter shadow that may surround a dark central region

Question 18

Astronomical Unit

Answer 18

Average distance from the sun which is 93 million miles.

Question 19

Ellipse

Answer 19

An oval or flattened Circle.

Question 20

Terrestrial Planet

Answer 20

A planet that has a rocky surface.

Question 21

Gas giant

Answer 21

A large planet that consist of gasses in a dense form.

Question 22

Asteroid

Answer 22

A small cold rocky body that orbits the sun.

Question 23

Comet

Answer 23

A body that produces a coma of gas and dust, a small icy body that orbits the sun.

Question 24

Meteor

Answer 24

A brief streak of light that enters out atmosphere at high speeds.

Question 25

Meteorite

Answer 25

a body of ice and dust that travels in a long narrow orbit around the sun

Question 26

Geocentric

Answer 26

Earths centerteary of the solar system.

Question 27

Heliocentric

Answer 27

A sun center theory of the universe.

Question 28

Gravity

Answer 28

The force that evert on one another because of their mass

Question 29

Waxing

Answer 29

The gradual increase of the ulimminated surface of the moon.

Question 30

Waning

Answer 30

The gradual decrease in the ulimminated surface of our moon

Question 31

Gibbous

Answer 31

More than half of than fully alluminated

Question 32

Crescent

Answer 32

The alluminated surfaces is less than a quarter alluminated.

Question 33

The entire surface of the moon alluminated.

Answer 33

Full moon

Question 34

New moon

Answer 34

The entire moon is not alluminated.

Question 35

Half moon

Answer 35

Half of the moon surface is alluminated.