6th Grade Earth & Space Science Final Exam

What helps power missions to the outer planets?

A lunar eclipse can only occur during which type of moon phase?

What type of energy is emitted by stars?

The Sun contains about half the mass of the solar system. _______________

Which place would be best to build an optical telescope?

What is a black hole?

1. Mechanical waves can transfer energy through a vacuum. _______________

Sunlight is more spread out as you move away from the equator.

What formed the maria on the Moon?

Inner planets are made mainly of solid rocky materials. _______________

Which of the following is NOT a dwarf planet?

A measure of the amount of light received on Earth is a star's _____.

What formed the craters on the Moon?

What force is mostly responsible for tides?

Which of the following was the first optical space telescope?

Early concerns about human space exploration was the effect of weightlessness on the astronauts. _______________

A ____ occurs when the Moon moves directly between the Sun and Earth and throws a shadow on Earth.

Mechanical waves can transfer energy through a vacuum. _______________

Dark, cooler areas on the Sun's surface are called _____.

Pluto is considered to be a which type of space body?

A _____ is a huge collection of stars.

A _____ is a region so dense that nothing, including light, can escape its gravity field.

____ has colorful clouds in bands of white, red, tan, and brown.

The outer planets are called gas dwarfs. _______________

The line on which an object rotates is defined as _________________.

Rockets are used for which purpose?

The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth was which of the following?

This planet has no atmosphere.

Small pieces of rock that enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up are called ____.

The hottest stars in space are _____ in color.

_____ are patterns of stars in the sky.

Which of the following objects are larger than the dwarf planets?

Why do planets and moons NOT emit light?

Which would be the best place for a radio telescope?

An astronomical unit is the average distance between Earth and the Sun. _______________

A comet develops a tail because of ____.

A star begins as a _____, a large cloud of gas and dust.

What is the basic shape of every planet’s orbit?

Which dwarf planet is located in the asteroid belt?

Space probes are not designed to return to Earth. _______________

Where do stars form?

Scientists can tell how hot a star is by considering type/shape of electromagnetic waves emitting. _______________

When the shadow of the Moon appears on Earth’s surface a _____________ is occurring.

Venus and Mars both have atmospheres made up mainly of carbon dioxide. _______________

Venus experiences an intense greenhouse effect.

A tide is a _________ rise and fall of sea level.

A group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity is a _____.

The Moon makes one revolution around Earth in the same amount of time that it makes one rotation on its axis.