Space Vocabulary

Question 1

Orbit

Answer 1

An circular/ elliptical path that revolves around another object

Question 2

Solar system

Answer 2

A object system that will revolve around a star

Question 3

Galaxy

Answer 3

Groups of solar systems, dust, and gas staying together by gravity; our solar system is part of a Milky Way galaxy

Question 4

Universe

Answer 4

Pretty much anything that is in, around or, on earth

Question 5

Satellite

Answer 5

An object that is natural or artificial the revolves near other objects

Question 6

Rotation

Answer 6

A planet spinning around an axis

Question 7

Revolution

Answer 7

As the planets rotate the path that the planets will take around our Sun is known as their orbit. The planets do not go around like perfect circles.The Sun’s gravitational pull keeps the planets in place orbit, just as Earth’s gravitational pull holds the Moon in orbit.

Question 8

Season

Answer 8

As the earth revolves around the sun it will change the time period

Question 9

Equinox

Answer 9

A twice-a-year occurrence when the earth’s axis is at a 90 angle to a line making it joining the sun and earth’s center.

Question 10

solstice

Answer 10

A twice-a-year occurrence when the sun will appear at the tallest point in the sky as seen from the north/south pole

Question 11

Mare

Answer 11

The lunar maria is big and dark, plains on our moon made by ancient volcanic eruptions.

Question 12

Eclipse

Answer 12

an event when a very large body goes between two other large bodies

Question 13

Umbra

Answer 13

A completely shaded part of a shadow unseeable object especially the area on our earth or moon

Question 14

Penumbra

Answer 14

A partly shaded area of the shadow

Question 15

Astronomical Unit

Answer 15

The distance from the earths and suns center to measure our solar system

Question 16

Ellipse

Answer 16

A ellipse is found shaped so you are able to add the distances of two points and always add up to the same number

Question 17

Terrestrial Planet

Answer 17

A terrestrial planet is a planet that is made primarily of silicate rocks or metals with our solar system the terrestrial planets are the inner planets near to our sun

Question 18

Gas Giant

Answer 18

a large planet of relatively low density consisting predominantly of hydrogen and helium, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune.
A very big planet of low hydrogen and helium such as Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus or, Saturn

Question 19

Asteroid

Answer 19

An small object the will spin around the sun

Question 20

Comet

Answer 20

A body made of ice and dust travels long and narrow around the sun.

Question 21

Meteor

Answer 21

a light in the sky that forms when a part of a rock from space burns up in our earth’s atmosphere

Question 22

Meteorite

Answer 22

A part of rock or metal from the strikes our surface

Question 23

Geocentric

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Keeping our earth as the center

Question 24

Heliocentric

Answer 24

Keep our sun as the center

Question 25

Gravity

Answer 25

The force that exist between any two objects with mass

Question 26

Tide

Answer 26

A regular fluctuation our seas water brought to by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on our earth’s oceans

Question 27

Waxing

Answer 27

Growing with light until a our full moon is reached.

Question 28

Waning

Answer 28

the moon having a smaller part of its visible surface illuminated and our moon appear to decrease in size.

Question 29

Gibbous Moon

Answer 29

A half moon

Question 30

Crescent Moon

Answer 30

A thin and curved moon that’s thicker and has thin points at the end

Question 31

Full moon

Answer 31

The moon when the full disk is illuminated

Question 32

New Moon

Answer 32

When the moon is unable to be seen and soon after it can be seen as a crescent moon

Question 33

Quarter Moon

Answer 33

When the moon is half illuminated by the sun

Question 34

Perihelion

Answer 34

A point of a orbit when a solar system body is close to the sun

Question 35

Aphelion

Answer 35

A point of a orbit when a solar system body is far way from the sun to the body around it revolves.