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WorksheetsScience Vocab.
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is Astronomy????????
The study of the clouds
The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
The study of the sky
The study of the sea
What is Axis??????
A line that is stretched across the world to show how long the earth is
The earth's tilt
The imaginary line that passes through earth's center and the West & East poles
The imaginary line that passes through earth's center and the North & South poles
What is Rotation?????
The spinning of the sun around the earth
The spinning of people on earth
The spinning of Earth on its axis
The spinning of continents
What is Revolution???
object's movement for a long time
The movement of one object around another
The movement of two objects colliding with each other
The movement of two objects passing each other
What is orbit??????
The path an object takes as it revolves around another object in space
The path an object takes as it collides with another object in space
The path an object takes as it passes another object in space
The path an object take as it sits by another object
What is Solstice??????
The eight weeks of the year on which the sun reaches its minimum distance East or South
The five days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance East or West
The six days of the year when the sun reaches its minimum distance North or South
The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance North or South of the equator
What is equinox????
The two days of the year on which the noon sun is directly overhead at the equator
The three days of the year on which the noon moon is directly overhead at the equator
The two weeks of the year on which the noon sun is directly overhead at the equator
The six days of the year on which the noon moon is directly overhead at the equator
What is Gravity????
The force that pulls all objects upward
The force that pulls all objects away from each other
The force that pulls all objects downward
The force that attracts all objects toward each other
What is the Law of Universal Gravitation??
The Scientific law that states that every object in the Universe pulls away from every other object
The scientific law that states that every object in the Universe attracts every other object
The Scientific law that states that every object in the Universe passes every other object
The scientific law that states the every object in the Universe is pulled downward toward every other object
What is Mass???
The amount of matter in an object
The amount of air in an object
The amount of electrons in an object
The amount of gravity
What is Weight????
Whether objects are heavy or light
What the scale shows
The force of gravity on an object
The amount of Mass on an object
What is inertia????
The tendency o fan object to attract change in its motion
The tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion
The tendency of an object to resist staying the same in its motion
The tendency of an object to resist a movement
What is phase??????
What people go through in different times in their lives
one of the different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from earth
The different shapes of earth
The different shapes of the sun
What is a solar eclipse?????
When the sun turns into the moon
The blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when the earth is is in front of the sun and moon
The blocking of moonlight to earth that occurs when the earth is directly between the moon and the sun
The blocking of sunlight to earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and the earth
What is an Umbra
The short term for umbrella
The darkest part of light
The darkest part of a shadow
The brightest part of a shadow
What is a Penumbra???????
The part of a shadow surrounding the darkest part
A part of sunlight
The darkest part of a shadow
The words pen and umbrella put together to make one word
What is a Lunar eclipse?????
The blocking of moonlight to the earth when earth is between the the sun and moon
The blocking of sunlight to the moon when earth is directly between the sun and the moon
The blocking of sunlight to earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and earth
The blocking of sunlight to earth that occurs when the sun is directly between the moon and earth
What is a Maria?????
Dark flat areas on the moons surface formed from huge, ancient lava flows
Craters on the moon
Craters on the sun
Craters on earth
What is orbit velocity??????
The velocity a rocket must achieve to establish an orbit around a body in space
The velocity the earth must take to get around the sun
The velocity the moon must take to get around the earth
Th velocity people must take to to walk on earth
What is escape velocity????
Velocity a rocket must achieve establish an orbit around a body in space
The velocity a rocket must reach to fly beyond a planet's gravity pull
How high a rocket can fly to get out of the atmosphere
How fast a plane can go to reach the speed of light
