Vocabulary

Question 1

Season

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Equinox

Answer 2

At an Equinox sunlight shines equally on the northern and Southern Hemispheres

Question 3

Orbit

Answer 3

The path of an object in space as it moves around another object because of its gravity

Question 4

Solar system

Answer 4

The sun,planets and various smaller bodies make this up

Question 5

Universe

Answer 5

Space and all the matter in it

Question 6

Satellite

Answer 6

An object that orbits a more massive object

Question 7

Impact crater

Answer 7

When an object strikes the surface of a larger object in space it explodes and leaves behind a round pit called

Question 8

Mare

Answer 8

Large dark Baltic plains on earths moons

Question 9

Gas giants

Answer 9

Mainly made of hydrogen helium and other gases

Question 10

Eclipse

Answer 10

Occurs when a shadow makes the sun or moon seem to grow dark

Question 11

Terrestrial planet

Answer 11

The planets closest to the sun

Question 12

Umbra

Answer 12

The darkest part

Question 13

Comet

Answer 13

An object that produces a coma

Question 14

Asteroids

Answer 14

Small solid rocks bodies that orbit close to the sun

Question 15

Meteorite

Answer 15

A space object that that reaches earths surface

Question 16

Geocentric

Answer 16

Measured from or considered in relation to the center of the earth

Question 17

Meteors

Answer 17

Brief strike of light

Question 18

Gravity

Answer 18

The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth

Question 19

Tide

Answer 19

Periodic rises and falls of large bodies of water

Question 20

Waxing

Answer 20

The moon at any time after the new moon and before the full moon

Question 21

Waning

Answer 21

Part of the moons visible surface illuminated so that it appears to decrease size

Question 22

Gibbous moon

Answer 22

The phrase where the moon is more than half illuminated

Question 23

Full moon

Answer 23

The phrase where the whole moon is illuminated

Question 24

New moon

Answer 24

The pause where the moon is invisible from earth

Question 25

Quarter moon

Answer 25

Phase where half the moon is lit

Question 26

Penumbra

Answer 26

The lighter shadow

Question 27

Revolution

Answer 27

In astronomy a revolution is the motion of one object around another

Question 28

AU

Answer 28

Average distance from the sun