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KLS Review Space
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Light Year | distance light travels in one year |
| space station | large artificial satellite on which people can live and work for long periods |
| phases of moon | different shapes of moon seen from earth that change because of angle looking at moon |
| force of gravity | pull from a body that's strength is dependent upon somethings mass and the distance between the objects |
| core | center of sun where nuclear fusion occurs |
| smallest terrestrial planet | mercury |
| largest terrestrial planet | earth |
| geocentric | earth centered universe |
| heliocentric | sun centered system |
| parallax | apparent movement of a star when seen from a different position |
| 1st Law of Planetary Motion | discovered by Kepler and states that the orbits of planets are an ellipse |
| solar wind | stream of electrically charged particles that extend outward from the sun's corona |
| refracting telescope | type of telescope that uses convex lenses to gather and focus light |
| remote sensing | collection of data from a distance without coming into direct contact |
| inner planets that had signs of water | earth and mars |
| inner planets | mercury, venus, earth, mars |
| rocket stage | engine for rocket that when it runs out of fuel falls off and falls back to earth |
| outer planets | jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune |
| characteristics of outer planets | large, made of gases like hydrogen and helium, many moons, rings, far apart |
| man made satellite | unmanned spacecraft put into orbit around earth for the primary purpose of observing the earth's surface |
| craters | round pits on moon |
| revolution | planet's motion around sun, earth's revolution takes about 365 days or one year |
| main sequence star | star that increases in brightness as it increases in temperature |