Space Vocabulary

Question 1

Orbit

Answer 1

the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution

Question 2

The sun and its family of orbiting plants and moons and other objects

Answer 2

Solar system

Question 3

Half of the moon is illuminated

Answer 3

Quarter moon

Question 4

The entire surface of the moon is not illuminated

Answer 4

New moon

Question 5

Average distance from the sun which is 93,000,000 miles

Answer 5

Astronomical unit

Question 6

The motion of one body around another,such as the earth in its orbit around the sun.

Answer 6

Revolution

Question 7

The illuminated surface is less than a quarter illuminated.

Answer 7

Crescent moon

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Penumbra

Question 9

A large dark plain solidified lava on the moon.

Answer 9

Mare

Question 10

Millions and billions of stars hold together in a group by their own gravity.

Answer 10

Galaxy

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Umbra

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Comet

Question 13

An event during one object in space cast a shadow onto another

Answer 13

Eclipse

Question 14

More then half but less than fully illuminated

Answer 14

Gibbous

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Orbit

Question 16

A sun centered theory of the universe

Answer 16

Heliocentric Theory

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Tide

Question 18

The gradual decrease in the illuminated surface of the moon

Answer 18

Waning

Question 19

Earth centered theory of the solar systems

Answer 19

Geocentric Theory

Question 20

An oval or flattened circle

Answer 20

Ellipsis

Question 21

A pattern of temperature changes the other weather trends over the course of a year.

Answer 21

Season

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Gravity

Question 23

A round pit lift on the surface of a planet after a smaller object strikes it.

Answer 23

Impact crater

Question 24

a large planet that consists of mostly gases in a dense form.

Answer 24

Gas giants

Question 25

The entire surface of the moon is illuminated

Answer 25

Full moon

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Solstice

Question 27

An object that rotates a more massive object

Answer 27

Satellite

Question 28

The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the moon.

Answer 28

Waxing