Vocab planets

Question 1

Orbit

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Solar system

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Galaxy

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Equinox

Answer 4

In an orbit, a position and time in which sum shines equally on both hemisphere.

Question 5

Universe

Answer 5

Space and all the matter and energy in it

Question 6

Sulstice

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Mare

Answer 7

A large dark plain of solidified lava on the moon

Question 8

Umbra

Answer 8

A dark central region of a shadow such as the come of the complete shadow cast by an object

Question 9

Penumbra

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Astronomical unit

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Elipse

Answer 11

An oval or flattened circle

Question 12

Terrestrial Planet

Answer 12

A planet that has a rocky surface

Question 13

Gas giant

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Asteroid

Answer 14

A small solid rocky body that orbits the sun

Question 15

Meteorite

Answer 15

A small object from outer space that passes through earths atmosphere and reaches the surface

Question 16

Geocentric Theory

Answer 16

Earth centered theory of the solar system

Question 17

Tides

Answer 17

The rise and fall of the oceans surface levels due to the gradation always pull of the sun and moon

Question 18

Waxing

Answer 18

The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the moon

Question 19

Waning

Answer 19

The gradual decrease of the illuminated surface of the moon

Question 20

Gibbous

Answer 20

More than half but less than fully eliminated

Question 21

Crescent moon

Answer 21

The illuminated surface is less than a quarter illuminate

Question 22

Full moon

Answer 22

The moon surface is fully eliminated

Question 23

Quarter moon

Answer 23

Half of the moon surface is eliminated

Question 24

Impact creator

Answer 24

A round pit left behind on the surface of s planet after a smaller abject strikes the surface

Question 25

Gravity

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Comet

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Axis of rotation

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Meteor

Answer 28

A brief streak of light produced by a particle entering earths atmosphere at high speeds

Question 29

Satellite

Answer 29

An object that orbits a more massive object

Question 30

New moon

Answer 30

The entire surface I’d the moon is not illuminated

Question 31

Season

Answer 31

One of a pattern of a temperature changes and other weather trends over the coursed of a year

Question 32

Revolution

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Eclipse

Answer 33

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