The Night Sky And Solar System

Question 1

Artificial satellite

Answer 1

A manmade spacecraft

Question 2

Orbit

Answer 2

The path taken by one body in space around another

-I.e earth orbiting the sun

Question 3

Earth

Answer 3

• Rocky inner planet

- third from the sun

Question 4

Moon

Answer 4

• Rocky body orbiting the earth

- is earth’s only natural satellite

Question 5

Natural satellite

Answer 5

A moon in orbit around a planet

Question 6

Planet

Answer 6

A large body that orbits a star in a solar system

Question 7

Sun

Answer 7

The star at the centre of our solar system

Question 8

Solar system

Answer 8

The sun and the planets and other bodies around them

Question 9

Comet

Answer 9

-dust particles frozen in ice that orbit the sun

Question 10

Meteor

Answer 10

A piece of rock or dust that heats up and creates streaks of lights

Question 11

Meteorites

Answer 11

• strong metallic object

- any meteor that has touched the ground is this

Question 12

Star

Answer 12

A body in space that gives out its own light

Question 13

Galaxy

Answer 13

Immense groups of stars and solar systems

Question 14

Milky Way

Answer 14

The galaxy containing our sun and solar system

Question 15

Universe

Answer 15

Everything that exists

Question 16

Astronomers

Answer 16

Scientists who study space

Question 17

Ellipse

Answer 17

-squashed circle or oval shape

Question 18

Asteroid

Answer 18

Lumps of rock orbiting the sun left over from when the solar system was created

Question 19

Mercury

Answer 19

• a rocky inner planet

- first from the sun

Question 20

Venus

Answer 20

• rocky inner planet

- second from the sun

Question 21

Mars

Answer 21

A rocky inner planet

-fourth from the sun

Question 22

Terrestrial

Answer 22

-made from rock

Question 23

Gas giant

Answer 23

• outer planets in the solar system
• coldest planets
• larger
• made from mainly gas

Question 24

Dwarf planet

Answer 24

-small lump of rock in orbit around the sun

Question 25

Gravity

Answer 25

- non contact force that acts between two masses | - hold planets in orbit

Question 26

How many inner and outer planets are there name from order

Answer 26

- four inner and four outer planets | - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus , Neptune

Question 27

Where is the asteroid belt

Answer 27

Between Mars and Jupiter

Question 28

Inner planets qualities

Answer 28

- all terrestrial - Mercury does not have an atmosphere - Venus is the hottest as it has an atmosphere of co2

Question 29

Outer planets qualities

Answer 29

- a lot bigger and colder - many moons in orbit around them - made up of mainly gases like helium and hydrogen

Question 30

Where do comets come from

Answer 30

-believed to come from beyond the Kuiper belt in a region called Oort Cloud