Vocabulary

Question 1

Asteroid

Answer 1

Small rocky object orbiting the sun

Question 2

Comet

Answer 2

Celestial object with nucleus of ice and dust with a tail facing away from sun

Question 3

Constellation

Answer 3

A group of stars forming a distinctive pattern

Question 4

Light-year

Answer 4

The distance light travels in 1 year (9.5 trillion km/9.5x10 to the power of 12)

Question 5

Meteor

Answer 5

When meteoroids enter a planet’s atmosphere and completely burns up.

Question 6

Meteorite

Answer 6

When a meteoroid survives the trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, its a meteorite.

Question 7

Meteoroid

Answer 7

Broken pieces of asteroids and comets moving through space

Question 8

Penumbra

Answer 8

Outer shadow of an eclipse, lighter, partial shadow

Question 9

Revolution

Answer 9

Orbiting (spinning) around a second object (in the solar system, it’s like the Earth around the Sun or the Moon around the Earth.)

Question 10

Rotation

Answer 10

Spinning on its own axis

Question 11

Umbra

Answer 11

Inner shadow of an eclipse, darker, total shadow