Question | Answer |
longest & shortest days of the year | solstices |
days with equal amounts of daylight & darkness | equinoxes |
first man to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
first man to orbit the earth | John Glenn |
region with such a strong pull of gravity that not even light can escape | black hole |
imaginary line that runs through the earth from the North to the South Pole | axis |
what the moon can be called because it orbits a larger object in space | satellite |
color of stars in order from the coolest to the hottest | red, orange, yellow, white, blue |
3 types of galaxies | spiral, irregular, elliptical |
type of galaxy earth is a part of | spiral |
name of the galaxy earth is a part of | Milky Way |
first 3 phases of the moon | new moon, crescent, quarter |
4th & 5th phases of the moon | gibbous & full moon |
evolutionists' explanation of how earth began | Big Bang Theory |
what a star's color depends on | surface temperature & mass |
one complete circle around the sun | revolution |
one complete circle on earth's axis | rotation |
large telescope in space that orbits the earth & sends back pictures | Hubble telescope |
large telescope on a mountain top in Hawaii that takes pics of objects in space | Keck telescope |