Question | Answer |
What couldn't robotic space probes that were sent into space do | Space probes could not feel like how it felt like to be in space even a telescope can provide a better view than they could |
The moon revovles in a closed path around Earth and earth is | it's only natural satellite |
The moon's path around Earth is it's | orbit |
Earth rotates around an imaginary line called a(n) | axis |
When does an eclipse occur | When the Earth or moon passes into each others shadow |
Earth is one of ___ planetsvthat orbit the sun | 8 |
other objects in the solar system include: | thousands of rocks called asteroids and balls of ice and rock called comets |
Each point in Earth's orbit at which the daylight hours are at their greatest or fewest is.Each point at which they are equal is called the | a solstice,equinox |
Earth and the moon are both made of | rock |
The 3 main types of landforms on the moon are: | highlands, craters, and marias |
The moon landing were part of the | Apollo Space Exploration |
The first artificial satelite launched into space was | sputnick |
The order in which things were used to study space is: | telescope, satelite, space probe, and space shuttle |
The first americans were sent into space in the | Mercury Program |
The first scientist to use a telescope to observe space was | Galileo |
Time keeping on Earth is based on Earth's | time zone |
The symbol 5 in a diagram represents: | rotation |
Dotted lines around a figure in space represents it's | orbit |
Why does a total solar eclipse block all of the sun from the earth | Because the moon is directly in front of the sun, completely covering it except for a small area around the edges |
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