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Asteroids
Astronomical unit
Blackhole
Blue
Chromosphere
Coma
Comet
Convective zone
Core
Corona
Dust tail
Dwarf planets
Earth
Eclipse
Elliptical
Equinox
Flare
Gas giants
Gas tail
Jupiter
Kuiper belt
Light-year
Lunar
Mars
Mercury
Meteors
Meteorites
Meteoroids
Neap Tide
Neptune
Nova
Nebula
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fusion
Nucleus
Orbit
Oort cloud
Parallax
Penumbra
Photosphere
Planets
Pluto
Prograde
Pulsar
Prominence
Quasar
Radiative zone
Red
Retrograde
Rings
Saturn
Solar
Solstice
Spectrum
Spiral
Spring tide
Sun
Sunspots
Supernova
Terrestrial
Tilt
Umbra
Uranus
Venus
Yellow
White
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8.3
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9,500,000,000,000
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300,000
3,000
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1. When Luna travels into the Earth’s shadow a ________________
________________ occurs
2. The layer of the sun that emits light is called the ____________________________
3. The orbits of the planets are ___________________________ in shape
4. The motion of an object moving around another object is called __________________
5. The distance that light travels in one year is called a __________________________________
6. Floating rocks in space are called ______________________
7. or __________________________ depending upon their size.
8. Nuclear fusion on the sun occurs in the layer called the __________________________.
9. Stars and planets form in a _______________________
10. The motion of an object spinning on it’s own axis is called ___________________________
11. An astronomical unit (AU) is the distance from the __________________
12. to the __________________
13. and is ____________________________ km
14. or ______________________light minutes
15. Gravity is a force of attraction that increases as an objects ______________________ increases.
16. A space rock that lands on the Earth’s surface is called a(n) _______________________
17. The layer of the sun that is considered to be the surface is called the _____________________
18. The highest high tide and the lowest low tides are referred to as the ___________ ____________
19. Large objects that orbit the Sun are called __________________
20. The darkest part of the Earth’s shadow is called the ________________
21. The seasons are caused by the ______________ of the Earth
22. Comets are found in the ________________________ and the _____________________
23. The lowest high tide and the highest low tide is referred to as the ____________
______________
24. The 4 inner planets are called the _____________________ planets
25. A ball of ice, rock and dust orbiting the sun is called a(n) ________________________
26. The days of the year where there are equal amounts of daylight and darkness, that are the start of Fall
and Spring are called the _________________
27. Objects that revolve around planets are called ______________
28. The lightest part of the Earth’s shadow is called the _________________
29. Kepler proved that the shape of the planetary orbits are _______________________
30. If a planet is rotating counter clockwise it is said to have ______________________ rotation
31. The layer of the sun that give it its color is called the _____________________________
32. The 4 outer planets, excluding Pluto, are called the ___________ _________________
33. The Milky Way galaxy is this kind of galaxy ________________________
34. The coldest stars are this color ____________________
35. If Star A is 36 light –years away and Star B is 108 light –years away, but they both have the same
apparent magnitude, Star B’s absolute magnitude is ________________ times larger than Star A’s
36. LABEL THE LAYERS OF THE SUN
37. DRAW THE PHASES OF THE MOON IN EACH CIRCLE, LABEL THE MISSING PHASE NAMES
New moon
Full moon
1st Quarter
3rd Quarter
38. A football shaped galaxy is called a (n)_______________________ galaxy
39. The speed of light is ____________________________ km/s
40. The source of all the energy in the solar system is the _____________________
41. The hottest stars are this color _____________________
42. Dark cooler areas of the Sun’s surface are called __________________
43. A very high energy object in space that is very far away is called a _____________________
44. Our Sun is considered to be a star of this color ______________________
45. When a star explodes, it is said to have gone __________________ or _______________________
46. A star that is very small and has so much gravity that electromagnetic energy cannot escape its surface is
called a __________________________
47. Stars are classified by there _________________________________ and
48. _____________________________
49. If a star is 27.4 light –years away, the light from that star will reach us in ____________________ years.
50. A spinning neutron star is called a __________________________ star.
51. The apparent movement of stars that are closer to us than those that are farther away, when we look at
them from different points in our orbit is called _____________________
52. Star A has a magnitude of 7.3, Star B has a magnitude of 3.2, Star C has a magnitude of -2.7 and Star D
has a magnitude -6.2, which star is the brightest? __________
53. A rainbow of colors that comes from white light passing through a prism is called a ________________
54. The days of the year that have the largest difference in the amount of daylight and darkness, that mark
the beginning of summer and winter are called the __________________
55. A small low energy star that is very old is called a ___________ _________________
56. A very large cool star is called a ______________________________
57. If a planet is rotating clockwise it is said to have ______________________ rotation
58. The layer of the sun that give it its color is called the _____________________________
59. When Luna’s shadow falls on Earth’s a ________________
________________ occurs
List the nine planets in order of size from largest to smallest
60. ___________________
61. ___________________
62. ___________________
63. ___________________
64. ___________________
65. ___________________
66. ___________________
67. ___________________
68. ___________________