Space

Question 1

What is the function of the atmosphere?

Answer 1

• Protects earth from the Sun’s harmful rays
• Allows us to breath
• Keeps the earth warm (right temperature for living things to survive)

Question 2

What is our nearest star?

Answer 2

The Sun

Question 3

What is the difference between an ocean and a sea?

Answer 3

Ocean is much larger.

Question 4

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 4

The letter of air (gases) that surround the earth

Question 5

What is earth’s atmosphere made up of?

Answer 5

Many gases such as:
* Oxygen
* Nitrogen
* Carbon dioxide

Question 6

Is earth a terrestrial or gaseous planet?

Answer 6

Terrestrial

Question 7

How much of the earth’s surface is covered with water?

Answer 7

71%

Question 8

What shape is the earth?

Answer 8

Sphere

Question 9

What are the features of earth?

Answer 9

Is the 3rd planet from the sun.
It is a spherical shape, made up of rock which is solid except for the inner core (which is hot molten).
Covered with water (71%)
Covered with a layer of gases (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide) called the atmosphere.

Question 10

What is the difference between sand and soil?

Answer 10

Soil is sand with dead and rotten material (plants and animals) in it.
Sand is just eroded rock

Question 11

What color does earth appear from space? Why?

Answer 11

Blue
Because it is morally covered in water

Question 12

List the continents

Answer 12

Europe
North America
South America
Africa
Australia
Antarctica
Asia

Question 13

How far above the earth’s surface does the atmosphere extend?

Answer 13

600km

Question 14

What is a habitat? Give some examples

Answer 14

The place where something lives.
Eg.
* a lake (for fish etc)
* a Savannah (for lions etc)
* a desert (for camel)

Question 15

What is the nearest object to Earth in space?

Answer 15

Moon

Question 16

What is a planet ?

Answer 16

A large object that orbits a star.

Question 17

What kind of energy does the sun emit?

Answer 17

Light and heat

Question 18

How many times bigger is the Sun’s diameter than earth’s?

Answer 18

110 times bigger

Question 19

How far away from the sun is earth?

Answer 19

About 150 million kilometers

Question 20

What is an orbit?

Answer 20

The pathway that a planet goes around a star or a satellite goes around a planet.

Question 21

What is the solar system?

Answer 21

The sun and all the objects that orbit it

Question 22

What is the pathway that earth moves around the sun called?

Answer 22

An orbit

Question 23

What direction does the earth travel around the sun?

Answer 23

Anticlockwise

Question 24

What is at the center of the solar system?

Answer 24

The sun

Question 25

What is the word for sun in Latin?

Answer 25

Sol

Question 26

How many stars in the solar system?

Answer 26

One (the sun)

Question 27

How does the sun support life on earth?

Answer 27

By providing light and heat energy

Question 28

What starts all energy chains on earth?

Answer 28

The sun’s light

Question 29

What do seeds need warmth for?

Answer 29

To grow

Question 30

What do animals need rest for?

Answer 30

To maintain their life processes

Question 31

What are the seven life processes?

Answer 31

Respiration Consuming Growth Movement Sensitivity Excreting Reproduction

Question 32

What are the defining characteristics of a planet? (What makes a planet a planet?)

Answer 32

A large sphere that orbits the around the sun, Which dominates its orbit.

Question 33

What is a crater?

Answer 33

A round hole made by an asteroid hitting a body of rock

Question 34

What is the moon made of?

Answer 34

Rock

Question 35

Describe the surface of the moon

Answer 35

Not smooth. Dusty. Covered with pieces of broken rock. Has large holes called craters. Has no proper soil.

Question 36

What have astronauts discovered about moon rocks?

Answer 36

They are similar to earth rocks

Question 37

Why can the moon not support life?

Answer 37

There is no air and There is no liquid water It is never the right temperature

Question 38

Where do scientists think there might be water on the moon?

Answer 38

As ice in shaded craters where it is cold

Question 39

What is the distance from the moon to the earth, in kilometers?

Answer 39

384 400km

Question 40

How long does it take light to travel to the earth from the sun?

Answer 40

8 min

Question 41

How long does it take light to travel to the earth from the moon?

Answer 41

1.5 seconds

Question 42

What is the closest body in space to earth?

Answer 42

The moon

Question 43

In general, what are phases of the moon?

Answer 43

The different shapes of the moon due to the changing pattern of sunlight on the moon

Question 44

How does the moon appear bright?

Answer 44

Sunlight reflecting from the surface of the moon. Moon does not produce its own light

Question 45

Why does the moon not always look fully round?

Answer 45

Because the sun cannot shines on all of the moon at the same time. Only the part that the sunlight hits is lit

Question 46

Name the phases of the moon

Answer 46

New moon Waxing crescent First quarter Waxing gibbous Full moon Waning gibbous Last quarter New moon

Question 47

If it is a new moon now, how long until it is a new moon again?

Answer 47

29.5 days

Question 48

What is a rocket?

Answer 48

Long tall structure that can be launched into space.

Question 49

What does it mean to launch?

Answer 49

To send a space craft into space

Question 50

What is gravity?

Answer 50

The force that keeps things on earth.

Question 51

What is a payload?

Answer 51

The people, equipment or other space craft carried by a rocket

Question 52

What is a vehicle?

Answer 52

A machine that is used to transport things and/or people from one place to another

Question 53

What does it mean to propel?

Answer 53

To move something forward

Question 54

What makes a rocket a system?

Answer 54

* It uses multiple parts that work together to make it launch. * It has an energy input of fuel * it has an energy output (big flames out of the bottom of it propelling it upwards)

Question 55

Why does a rocket need energy?

Answer 55

To propel it fast enough to * escape earth’s gravity and * push through earth’s atmosphere and get into space