The Solar Sytsem And Beyond Lesson 2

Question 1

A natural artificial object in space that circles around another object

Answer 1

Satellite

Question 2

The appearance of the shape of the moon at a particular time

Answer 2

Phase

Question 3

The regular rise and fall of the water level along a shoreline

Answer 3

Tide

Question 4

A blocking of the suns light that happens when Earth passes through the moons shadow

Answer 4

Solar eclipse

Question 5

A situation that occurs when Earth the sun and moon are in a straight line and Earths shadow falls behind the moon.

Answer 5

Lunar eclipse

Question 6

One of many small rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter

Answer 6

Asteroid

Question 7

A chunk of rock from space that travels through Earth

Answer 7

Meteor

Question 8

A mixture of ice frozen gases rock and dust left over from the formation of the solar system

Answer 8

Comet

Question 9

An object in space that produces its own energy including heat and light

Answer 9

Star

Question 10

A huge cloud of gas and dust in space that is the first stage of a star formation

Answer 10

Nebula

Question 11

An object whose gravity is so strong that light cannot escape it

Answer 11

Black hole

Question 12

The distance light travels in a year

Answer 12

Light year

Question 13

A star that can no longer turn turn helium into carbon it cools and shrinks becoming very small and dense

Answer 13

White dwarf

Question 14

Any of the patterns that are formed by a group of stars in the night sky

Answer 14

Constellation

Question 15

A star that has produced more energy than gravity can hold together and has exploded

Answer 15

Supernova

Question 16

As the earth revolves around the sun the ??? revolves around the earth

Answer 16

Moon

Question 17

The moons orbit around the earth takes ???

Answer 17

29 days

Question 18

??? Phase is when you can’t see the moon at all

Answer 18

New moon

Question 19

??? Phase is almost a full moon

Answer 19

Gibbous moon

Question 20

??? Phase is when you see a sliver of the moon

Answer 20

Crescent moon

Question 21

??? Phase is when you see the moon smaller

Answer 21

Waning

Question 22

??? Phase is when you see the moon larger

Answer 22

Waxing

Question 23

The moons gravitational pull causes tides and it happens twice a day the ride and fall of the tides are called a ??? And a ???

Answer 23

Low and high tide

Question 24

???are small rocky or metallic object that orbits the sun in both the inner and outer regions of the solar system

Answer 24

Meteoroids

Question 25

??? Is a meteor that hits the earths surface

Answer 25

Meteorites

Question 26

The head of a comet is made up of a ??? And nucleus

Answer 26

Coma

Question 27

A ??? Is formed when the heat from the suns rays pushes some of the coma away from the comet

Answer 27

Glowing tail

Question 28

Stars have different colors occur because of the surface ??? Of each star

Answer 28

Temperature

Question 29

Suns temperature makes it look ???

Answer 29

Yellow

Question 30

Cooler stars appear ??? Or ???

Answer 30

Red or orange

Question 31

Warmer stars appear ??? Or ???

Answer 31

White or blue

Question 32

The sun is about ??? Years old

Answer 32

5 billion years old

Question 33

It takes eight minutes for ??? To reach Earth

Answer 33

Light

Question 34

Astronomers use ??? To describe the great distance between stars

Answer 34

Light years

Question 35

Constellations are named after ???

Answer 35

Animals and fictional characters

Question 36

There are ??? Constellations

Answer 36

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Question 37

Travelers can use the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper to find ??? Which tells you which direction is north

Answer 37

Polaris and north

Question 38

The sun contains 99% of the solar system’s ???

Answer 38

Mass

Question 39

92% of the sun is made up of ??? Gas

Answer 39

Hydrogen

Question 40

??? Are the sudden releases of energy from the suns atmosphere

Answer 40

Solar flares