What colour of stars are the hottest?
The North Star is also called this
Why do positions of the constellations appear to change throughout the year?
Dark, Magnetic Spots on the Sun's surface are called...
A star's Magnitude or brightness can be determined by these 3 things:
Time it takes for the earth to rotate once around the sun
Reason we have seasons
Why days are longer in the summer and shorter in the winter
What time of day is it if you have almost no shadow?
Order of the Planets Starting with Mercury
The area between the inner and outer planets that is filled with Asteroids
A large ball of ice, dust, rock and gas that orbits the sun.
What occurs when the moon moves into the Earth's shadow?
Another name for the Big Dipper is
Biggest Meteorite Discovered on Earth
The name of our Galaxy
The Largest Planet in our Solar System
Name the Inner Planets in Order from the Sun
Name the 4 Gas Giants
Name 3 Dwarf Planets
Phase of the moon when more than half of the moon, but not all of it is illuminated
Another name for a small body orbiting a planet
The time it takes for the moon to orbit Earth
When the moon grows gradually more illumminated when passing from new to full moon
Name the 8 phases of the moon beginning with New Moon
blue
Polaris
Earth revolves around the Sun
sun spots
its Size, Distance from Earth and Temperature
365 days
Earth is tilted on its axis 23.5 degrees
Earth's Axis is tilted more toward the sun in the summer = more hours of direct sunlight.
Solar Noon (high noon or 12:00pm)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Asteroid Belt
A Comet!
A Lunar Eclipse
Ursa Major
Hoba
The Milky Way
Jupiter
Mercury, Venus, Mars
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Pluto, Makemake, Ceres, Eris, Haumea
Gibbous
Satellite
27 1/3 days (or Approx. 28 days) One Lunar Cycle
Waxing Moon
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon
