exploring the night sky
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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Meteor | A piece of rock or metal from space that enters Earth's atmosphere
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Meteorite | A meteor that falls to Earth ,also called a shooting star
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Comet | An icy ball that contains dust and rock and travel in an elliptical orbit around the Sun
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Planet | A large object the circles a star and does not produce i's own light
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Star | A huge globe of hot gases that shines by it's own light
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Constellation | A group of stars that forrms a pattern in the night sky
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Revolution | Earrth's yearly tip around the sun, which causes the seasons to change
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Rotation | The spinning of the Earth that causes day and night
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Axis | An imaginary rod stretching through the planet between the North and South poles
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Telescope | Reflecting and refracting
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Reflecting uses | A curved mirror
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Reflecting telescopes are easier to build because | It is easier to build a large mirror than alarge lens
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Refracting telescope uses | lenses
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Another name for the North Star is | Polaris
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Polaris lies directly above the | North Pole
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Earth's Makes the stars appear to move across the night sky | rotation
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One of Earth's takes about 24 hours | rotation
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A planet is different from a star because it does not produce it's own | light
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The word comes from the Greek word wandering stara | planet
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The big dipper is a part of the constellation called | ursa major
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The object that is known as the morning star is called | Venus
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