Solar System And Beyond Lesson 2

Question 1

A natural or 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 lights that happens when earth passes through the moons shadow

Answer 4

Solar eclipse

Question 5

A situation that occurs when earth the sun the moon are in a straight line and earths shadow falls across 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 earths atmosphere

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

A 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 star formation

Answer 10

Nebula

Question 11

An object whose gravity is so strong that light can 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 helium into carbon it’s 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 starts in the night sky

Answer 14

Constellation

Question 15

A star that 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 moon orbits around the earth takes ________

Answer 17

29 days

Question 18

The apparent shapes of the moons are called

Answer 18

Phases

Question 19

_________phase is when you can’t see the moon at all

Answer 19

New moon

Question 20

________ phase is when you see a sliver of the moon

Answer 20

Cresent moon

Question 21

__________phase is when the moon appears smaller

Answer 21

Waning phase

Question 22

_______phase is when the moon appears larger

Answer 22

Waxing phase

Question 23

The moons gravitational pull causes the tides and it happens twice a day the rise and fall of the tides are called a _______ and _____

Answer 23

High tide and low tide

Question 24

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

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 way from the comet

Answer 27

Glowing tail

Question 28

Stars have different colors. Colors occur because of the surface_________ of each star

Answer 28

Temperature

Question 29

Sun 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 8 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 ____________ or objects

Answer 35

Animals, fictional character, or objects

Question 36

There are ______ constellations

Answer 36

88

Question 37

Travelers can use the Big Dipper or the Little Dipper to find _________ which tells you which direction is____________

Answer 37

Polaris and north

Question 38

The sun contains 99% of the solar systems total__________

Answer 38

Mass

Question 39

92% of the sun is made up of _________gas

Answer 39

Hydrogen

Question 40

___________are the sudden release of energy from the suns atmosphere

Answer 40

Solar flares

Question 41

_______phase is almost a full moon

Answer 41

Gibbous moon