Unit 13

Question 1

To spin on an axis

Answer 1

rotate

Question 2

An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and sounthern hemispheres.

Answer 2

Equator

Question 3

The path Earth takes as it revolves around the sun.

Answer 3

orbit

Question 4

A star and all the planets and other objects that revolve around that star is called a ….

Answer 4

solar system

Question 5

The bending of light

Answer 5

refraction

Question 6

A natural body that revolves around around a planet

Answer 6

moon

Question 7

To move in a circle around a central object. Example: Earth traveling in a path around the sun.

Answer 7

revolve

Question 8

Ours is called the Milky Way. It’s made of gas, dust, and billions of other stars.

Answer 8

galaxy

Question 9

A low, bowl-shaped area on the surface of a planet or moon.

Answer 9

crater

Question 10

This happens when one body in space blocks the light from reaching another in space

Answer 10

eclipse

Question 11

The name of the star at the center of our solar system

Answer 11

sun

Question 12

Everything that exists-all the stars, planets, dust, gases, and energy.

Answer 12

universe

Question 13

A huge ball of hot gases in space

Answer 13

star

Question 14

Waning crescent is one example of this.

Answer 14

moon phase

Question 15

A body that revolves around the star

Answer 15

planet

Question 16

An imaginary line that passes through the north and south poles

Answer 16

axis

Question 17

A pattern of stars that is named after a religious or mythical object or animal.

Answer 17

constellation