Planets | Galaxies | Gravity | NASA | Miscelaneous |
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What are the outer planets?
Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune
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What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The galaxy that holds our solar system.
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What is gravity?
This causes a person to feel weightless in space.
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What is a reflecting telescope?
A telescope with a lens and a mirror.
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What is rotation?
The spinning of Earth on its axis.
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What are the inner planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
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What is away?
All galaxies are rapidly moving _____ from each other.
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What is heart?
A person's _______ must work harder to pump blood during free fall.
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What is a refracting telescope?
A telescope with a tube and one concave lens.
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What is a solar eclipse?
The moon is shadowed from Earth.
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What is a planet?
A large object that circles a star and does not produce its own light.
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What is The Big Bang Theory?
The universe began with an explosion from a ball of matter and energy.
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What is calcium?
Bones lose this during free fall.
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What is suction?
This is necessary for astronauts to use the restroom in space.
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What is a lunar eclipse?
The moon appears a reddish, orange color.
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What is revolution?
The complete circular orbit of planets around the sun.
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What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
Edwin Hubble discovered that galaxies could be classified into 3 groups.
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What is all planets?
The planets with a gravitational pull.
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What is a biosphere?
This would allow for the oxygen and water cycles in space.
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What is a meteor?
A dust particle that burns as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
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What is Venus?
63 moons orbit this planet.
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What is elliptical?
The shape of the Milky Way Galaxy
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What is down?
Gravity causes all objects to move ______.
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What is the International Space Station?
Astronauts study at this locations
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What is Earth's tilt?
The cause of earth's changing seasons and climates.
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