WorksheetsEarth, Moon, and Sun Vocabulary
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a telescope?
a)
a long tube with a mirror that gathers light
b)
a hole that collects sound
c)
a machine that puts off light
2.
Designed to travel through space or to launch a space craft?
a)
satellite
b)
telescope
c)
rocket
d)
orbit
3.
An artificial object that has been intentionally placed into orbit?
a)
telescope
b)
rocket
c)
space shuttle
d)
satellite
4.
A rocket-launched spacecraft, able to land like an unpowered aircraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit?
a)
orbit
b)
space shuttle
c)
satellite
d)
dwarf planet
5.
A celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
a)
tide
b)
satellite
c)
dwarf planet
d)
extraterrestrial life
6.
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution?
a)
planet
b)
rotation
c)
orbit
d)
tide
7.
The movement of one object around a center or another object
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
8.
The movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis.
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
9.
When the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
a)
umbra
b)
solstice
c)
penumbra
d)
orbit
10.
The time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20).
a)
solstice
b)
equinox
c)
umbra
d)
rotation
11.
The moon at any time after new moon and before full moon, so called because its illuminated area is increasing.
a)
waning phases
b)
waxing phases
12.
The moon at any time after full moon and before new moon (so called because its illuminated area is decreasing).
a)
waxing phases
b)
waning phases
13.
The complete or perfect shadow of an opaque body, as a planet,where the direct light from the source of illumination is completely cut off.
a)
umbra
b)
penumbra
14.
The partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off.
a)
umbra
b)
penumbra
15.
A type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun.
a)
solar eclipse
b)
lunar eclipse
16.
Occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow). This can occur only when the sun, Earth and moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle.
a)
solar eclipse
b)
lunar eclipse
17.
The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun.
a)
equinox
b)
rotation
c)
tides
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