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Space
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Solar System | Consist of the sun, planets their moons, metors, astroid, and coments. |
| Milky Way Galaxy | The galaxy in which our solar system is located. |
| Gravity | The force that pulls two objects together ; it plls us toward Earth and it keeps the planet in motion. |
| Astronomy | The study of the moons, stars, and other objects in space |
| Axis | An imaganry line that passes though Earth's center and the north and south poles about which Earth rotates. |
| Rotation | The spinning motion of a planet about its axis. |
| Revolution | |
| Orbit | The path of an object as it revols around another object (planets revolve around the sun moons revole around their planets. |
| Tides | The daily rise and fall of Earth's water on shores. |
| Satellite | Any object that revols around another object |
| Phase | One of the different shapes of the moon as seen from Earh. |
| Crater | A round pit on the moons surface. |
| Maria | Dark, flat regions on the moons surface |
| Core | The central part of the sun where nuclear fussion |
| Coment | (Dirty snowball) A ball of ice and dust whose orbit is usally a long, narrow ellipse it has a glowing tail up to 100 million miles long. |
| Asteroids | Object revoling around the sun that are too small and too numberous to be consciderd a planet. |
| Asteroid Belt | The reigon of the solar system between the orbits of mars and jupiter where many astroides are found. |
| Meteoroid | A chunk of rock or dust in space. |
| Meteorite | A metoriod that hit Earth's surface. |
| Space Station | A man made laboratory orbiting the Earth. |
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