Space

Question 1

A path of an object in space as it moves around another planet due to gravity

Answer 1

Orbit

Question 2

The sun and its family of another planets moons and other objects

Answer 2

Solar system

Question 3

Millions of billions of stars held together 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 objects

Answer 5

Satellite

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Impact crater

Question 7

an imaginary line about which a turning object rotates

Answer 7

Axis

Question 8

the motion of one body of another

Answer 8

Revolution

Question 9

One part of a pattern of weather changes of a pattern of year

Answer 9

Season

Question 10

In an orbit a position and time in which sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemisphere

Answer 10

Equinox

Question 11

In an orbit a position and time doing which one hemisphere receives its maximum area of sunlight while the other hemisphere receives its minimum amount

Answer 11

Solstice

Question 12

A large dark plane of solidified lava on the moon

Answer 12

Mare

Question 13

And event during Which one object in space casts a shadow onto another

Answer 13

Eclipse

Question 14

The dark Central region of a shadow such as the cone of complete shadow cast by and object

Answer 14

Umbra

Question 15

A region of lighter shadow that may surround a dark circle region

Answer 15

Penumbra

Question 16

Average distance from the sun which is a approximately 93,000,00 miles or 150 million kilometers

Answer 16

Astronomical unit

Question 17

An oval or flattened circle

Answer 17

Ellipse

Question 18

a large planet that consist mostly of gases in a dense form

Answer 18

Gas giant

Question 19

A small solid rocky body that orbits the sun

Answer 19

Asteroid

Question 20

A body that can produce a coma of gas and dust a small icy body that orbits the sun

Answer 20

Comet

Question 21

A brief streak of light produced by the particle entering earth Atmosphere at high-speed

Answer 21

Meteor

Question 22

Earth centered theory and Solar System

Answer 22

Geocentric

Question 23

A sun centered theory of the solar system

Answer 23

Heliocentric

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Gravity

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Tide

Question 26

The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the moon

Answer 26

Waxing

Question 27

(of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.

Answer 27

Waning

Question 28

(of the moon) having the observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.

Answer 28

Gibbous moon

Question 29

the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon.

Answer 29

Crescent

Question 30

the phase of the moon in which its whole disk is illuminated

Answer 30

Full moon

Question 31

the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent.

Answer 31

New moon

Question 32

Waxing Crescent. The moon is less than one-half illuminated by the sun but less than one quarter illuminated. Occurs when the moon’s illumination is increasing, First Quarter. The moon is one-half illuminated by the sun.

Answer 32

Quarter moon

Question 33

A planet that has a rocky surface

Answer 33

Terrestrial planets

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Meteorite