Galaxies
Space
History
Gravity &
Motion
Eclipses &
Phases
Tides &
Seasons
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Question 1 - 10
• Shaped like flattened disks
Answer 1 – 10
• What are spiral galaxies
Question 1 - 20
• Round in shape with little gas or dust
Answer 1 – 20
• What are elliptical galaxies
Question 1 - 30
• It looks like a fried egg
Answer 1 – 30
• What is the Milky Way Galaxy
Question 1 - 40
• The distance from the Sun to the center of the
galaxy in light years
Answer 1 – 40
• What is 30,000
Question 1 - 50
• The sun and our solar system take this long to
make one trip around the center of our galaxy
Answer 1 – 50
• What is 240 million years
Question 2 - 10
• The most influential astronomer,
mathematician and geographer of his
time…lived in Egypt in the first century
Answer 2 – 10
• Who is Ptolemy
Question 2 - 20
• Invented the telescope to study the craters on
the moon
Answer 2 – 20
• Who is Galileo
Question 2 - 30
• The model that proved that earth turned on
its axis once a day and orbited the sun once a
year
Answer 2 – 30
• What is the heliocentric model
Question 2 - 40
• Developed the Law of Universal Gravitation
Answer 2 – 40
• Who is Newton
Question 2 - 50
• Discovered that the earth and planets travel
about the sun in elliptical orbits
Answer 2 – 50
• Who is Kepler
Question 3 - 10
• The strength of gravity between two objects
depends on these two factors
Answer 3 – 10
• What are mass and distance
Question 3 - 20
• A force that opposes motion
Answer 3 – 20
• What is friction
Question 3 - 30
• These two things combine to keep earth in
orbit around the sun and the moon in orbit
around the earth
Answer 3 – 30
• What is inertia and gravity
Question 3 - 40
• An object made and put into orbit by humans
Answer 3 – 40
• What is an artificial satellite
Question 3 - 50
• The speed of this orbit matches the Earth’s
rotation
Answer 3 – 50
• What is geostationary
Question 4 - 10
• This happens when the sun is obscured by the
moon
Answer 4 – 10
• What is a solar eclipse
Question 4 - 20
• The term used when the moon is moving
towards being full
Answer 4 – 20
• What is waxing
Question 4 - 30
• The phases of the moon vary in duration
because of this kind of orbit
Answer 4 – 30
• What is elliptical
Question 4 - 40
• This happens when the moon comes between
the sun and the earth, but they don’t line up
in a perfectly straight line
Answer 4 – 40
• What is a partial eclipse
Question 4 - 50
• Also called a “super moon”
Answer 4 – 50
• What is perigee
Question 5 - 10
• These occur when the sun and moon are in a
straight line
Answer 5 – 10
• What are spring tides
Question 5 - 20
• If the moon and sun form a right angle with
the earth you will get these
Answer 5 – 20
• What are neap tides
Question 5 - 30
• This place experiences the most extreme tides
on earth
Answer 5 – 30
• What is the Bay of Fundy
Question 5 - 40
• There are four seasons on earth because of
this
Answer 5 – 40
• What is the earth’s tilt
Question 5 - 50
• The imaginary line around which the Earth
spins or rotates
Answer 5 – 50
• What is its axis