Space 💫✨💥

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Orbit

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Solar system

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Galaxy

Question 4

Space and all the matter and energy in it.

Answer 4

Universe

Question 5

An object that orbits a more massive object.

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Satellite

Question 6

A round pit left behind on the surface of a planet or other body in space after a smaller object strikes the surface.

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Impact crater

Question 7

An imaginary line about which a turning body suck as the earth rotates.

Answer 7

Axis of rotation

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Revolution

Question 9

One part of a pattern of Temperature changes and other weather trends over the course of a year.

Answer 9

Season

Question 10

In an orbit, a position and time in which sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. A time of the year when day light and darkness are nearly equally for most parts of the earth.

Answer 10

Equinox

Question 11

In an orbit, a position and time during which one hemisphere receives its maximum area of sunlight while the other hemisphere receives the minimum amount. The time of year when the the days are either longest or shortest.

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Solstice

Question 12

A large dark plain of solidified lava on the moon.

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Mare

Question 13

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

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Eclipse

Question 14

The dark central region of a shadow, such as the cone of complete shadow cast by an object.

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Umbra

Question 15

A region of a lighter shadow that may surround a dark center spreading cone of lighter shadow cast by an object.

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Penumbra

Question 16

Average distance from the sun which is approximately 93,000,000 miles or 150 million kilometers.

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Astronomical unit

Question 17

An oval or flattened circle.

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Ellipse

Question 18

A planet that has a rocky surface.

Answer 18

Terrestrial Plane

Question 19

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

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Gas giant

Question 20

A small solid rocky body that orbits the sun.

Answer 20

Asteroid

Question 21

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

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Comet

Question 22

A brief streak of light produces by a particle entering Earths atmosphere at high speed.

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Meteor

Question 23

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

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Meteorite

Question 24

Earth centered theory of the solar system.

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Geocentric

Question 25

A sun centered theory of the solar system.

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Heliocentric

Question 26

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

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Gravity

Question 27

The rise and fall of the ocean levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.

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Tide

Question 28

The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the moon.

Answer 28

Waxing

Question 29

The gradual decrease in the illuminated surface of the moon.

Answer 29

Waning

Question 30

More than half but less than fully illuminated.

Answer 30

Gibbous moon

Question 31

The illuminated surface is less than a quarter illuminated.

Answer 31

Crescent moon

Question 32

The entire surface of the moon is illuminated.

Answer 32

Full moon

Question 33

The entire surface of the moon is not illuminated.

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New moon

Question 34

Half of the moons surface is illuminated.

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Quarter moon