Earth and Space Science

Question 1

What is an imaginary line that objects in space follow as they move around a larger object?

Accepted Answer

orbit

Question 2

What is a person who travels into space?

Accepted Answer

astronaut

Question 3

What is a large round object that follows a path and moves around a star like the Sun?

Accepted Answer

planet

Question 4

An object that moves around Earth and sends messages and pictures to help us learn about space?

Accepted Answer

satellite

Question 5

What is a craft that is reused to carry people into space and back to Earth?

Accepted Answer

space shuttle

Question 6

What is a tool that makes faraway objects look bigger and closer?

Accepted Answer

telescope

Question 7

What is the galaxy in which we live?

Accepted Answer

Milky Way Galaxy

Question 8

What is a group of objects in space including the Sun and everything that moves around it?

Accepted Answer

solar system

Question 9

Imaginary straight line that goes through the center of a planet which the planet turns around?

Accepted Answer

axis

Question 10

What is an object that moves around Earth that we see mostly at nighttime in phases?

Accepted Answer

moon

Question 11

What is everything that can be seen, touched and sensed above the Earth's atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

universe

Question 12

What is the force that weighs down objects?

Accepted Answer

gravity

Question 13

What is a star in the center of the solar system that burns gas and gives off heat and light?

Accepted Answer

sun

Question 14

What is a large piece of rock or metal flying in space that is left over from the planets.

Accepted Answer

asteroid

Question 15

What is a giant ball of extremely hot gas that burns and gives off heat and light?

Accepted Answer

star

Question 16

What does it mean to move around something in a circular path?

Accepted Answer

revolve

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