Astronomy Vocab

Astronomy is  

• the study of sleep 
• the science that deals with the material universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
• the study of stars 
• The study of aliens 

The movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis is

• Rotation
  
• One Direction 
• a kitten 
• Revolution

The orbiting of one heavenly body around another is 

• Rotation
  
• One Direction 
• a kitten 
• Revolution

Either of the two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator is called the ------

• Summer 
• Winter
• Solstice
• Easter 

The time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth  is called the_____ 

• pickle 
• equinox
• albatros 
• symbiotic 

Mass Is 

• measuring size 
• How big or small something is
•  a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape.
• A small measurement 

______ is how an object is defined by the force of gravity on the object 

• Weight 
• Astronomy
• inertia
• A cat 

Gravity is 

• something pulling another object toward itself 
• How you move 
• Google 
• the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth

Inertia is ----

• a fig newton
• not moving 
• a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged
• Inertia

strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement is -----

• Starwars 
• Star trek
• _inertia
• Force