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The Moon
Heavenly
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Star Power
Day and Night
Seasons
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What is the planet
from the Sun?
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Earth
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Which planet has the
greatest mass?
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Jupiter
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Which planet has the
most moons?
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Saturn
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Which planet has the
longest day?
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Venus – it takes 243
days for it to rotate just
once.
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Which planet takes the
longest to orbit the
Sun? (excluding Pluto)
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Neptune – It takes 165
Earth years to orbit the
Sun.
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Where does the light of
the Moon come from?
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The Sun - The Sun’s
light is reflected off the
Moon back to Earth.
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What is the difference
between waning and
waxing?
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Waning means to shrink
and waxing means to
grow.
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What is it called when
the Moon can’t be seen
from Earth?
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New Moon
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Name this phase of the
Moon.
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Waning Gibbous Moon
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Name this phase of the
moon.
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First Quarter Moon
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What is a comet?
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A comet is a small
frozen ball of ice, dust
and gas, and have a
coma (or tail).
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What’s the difference
between a comet and
an asteroid?
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An asteroid is made of
rock or metal. A comet
is made of ice, dust,
and gas. A comet has a
tail, an asteroid doesn’t.
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What is a meteor?
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A meteor is a streak of
light caused by a
meteoroid igniting while
entering the Earth’s
atmosphere.
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How often does Haley’s
comet fly by Earth?
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Every 75-76 years
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What’s the difference
between a meteoroid
and a meteorite?
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A meteorite is a
meteoroid (piece of
asteroid or comet) that
has entered the Earth’s
atmosphere and hit
Earth.
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Our sun is this distance
from the earth.
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93 million miles
Or
150 million km
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About how long does it
take sunlight to reach
the earth
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Somewhere between 8
and 9 minutes
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A group of millions or
billions of stars is
called a ….
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Galaxy
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Our galaxy is called
the…
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Milky Way
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The shape of our galaxy
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Spiral
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The reason for the
seasons…..
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Tilt of the axis
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How much is the earth
tilted?
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23 and 1/2 degrees
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The reason for day and
night.
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Because the earth is
spinning.
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Which hemisphere do
we live in?
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Northern hemisphere
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When the sun is highest
in the sky during the
day. This is called …
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Solar Noon
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Kings & Queens
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The only heavenly body
that people
(astronauts) have
gone to…
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The moon!
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global history
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Planets
The Moon
Heavenly
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Star Power
Earthly
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Which planet is the
closest to the Sun?
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Mercury
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Being of similar size and
mass, this planet is
considered the sister
planet to Earth.
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Venus
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Which planet was
named for the Greek
god Zeus?
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Jupiter
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Which planet has the
fewest satellites?
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Mercury and Venus
don’t have any
satellites. This is
probably because they
are so close to the Sun.
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Name all of the
Gaseous planets.
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
and Neptune
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How long does it take
for the Moon to orbit the
Earth?
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About 28 days.
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Why do we only see
one face of the Moon?
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We only see one side of
the Moon because it
rotates on its axis at the
same speed as its orbit
of the Earth.
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How many Moons
would fit in the Earth?
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49
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What is a moon?
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A moon is a satellite of
a planet, which orbits
the planet.
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Which planet has the
most moons and how
many does it have?
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As of 2005, Saturn has
46 known moons.
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Comets come from a
part of our solar
system called the ….
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Ort Cloud
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When an asteroid hits
the earth or other
planet it creates a hole
called a ……
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Crater
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A meteor that hits the
ground is called a …
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Meteorite
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A famous comet that
returns every 76 years.
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Halley’s Comet
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The glowing head of a
comet is called the …
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Coma
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The speed of light…
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186,000 miles per
second
Or
300,000 km per second
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The gas that the sun
“burns” is called …
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hydrogen
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Dark spots on the sun a
called ….
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Sunspots
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The color of the hottest
stars…
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blue
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A collection of gas and
dust in space that
might form a star is
called a …
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Nebula
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The earth spins on its
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Axis
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When the earth is
closest to the sun,
what season is it in the
northern hemisphere?
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Winter
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A device that tells time
using the sun, is called
a…
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Sundial
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On a sundial, the
angled part is called a
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gnomon
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The reason that the sun
appears to move
through the sky during
the day.
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Earth rotating or
spinning on its axis.
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Today’s Category:
What is it about Earth
that enables it to
support life?
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Earth is just the right
distance from the Sun so
the temperature is not too
hot nor too cold. Earth has
air and water, which are
necessary for life.
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