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Night Sky
Utah 6th grade science standard 4
Question | Answer |
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Irregular pieces of rock moving through space in an area between the planets Mars and Jupiter. | Asteroids |
Any natural object found in space. | Celestial object |
Objects are made of ice, dust, and gases that orbit the sun and form a tail as it passes close to the sun | Comets |
Many millions of stars grouped together in space. | Galaxy |
Celestial objects that revolve around the sun and do not produce their own light. | Planets |
A natural or human-built object which revolves around another object in space; such as the moon. | Satellites |
A large celestial object made up of gases that gives off light and heat. | Star |
The measurement of the amount of space between objects. | Distance |
A push or a pull. | Force |
The power that attracts one object to another. | Gravity |
The pull that gravity has on an object. | Gravitational force |
The amount of matter in an object | Mass |
A unit used to help understand size relationship. | Scale |
The system made of 9 unique planets and other objects that all orbit the sun; the sun is also part of the solar system. | Solar System |
Agroup of stars forming a fixed pattern in the sky. | Constellation |
A group of billions of stars that is home to our solar system. | Milky Way galaxy |
How fast light travels which is 186,000 miles per second or 300,000 kilometers per second. | Speed of Light |
An instrument that makes distant objects appear larger by making them look closer. | Telescope |
EVERYTHING that is in space. | Universe |
The star that is the center of our solar system. | Sun |
The distance light travels in one year; it is used to measure distances in space. | Light years |