6th Grade Science - SPACE

Question 1

What is the difference between the Heliocentric and Geocentric models of our Solar System?

Accepted Answer

Geo=Earth in the Center. Helio=Sun in the center.

Question 2

What do all inner planets have in common?

Accepted Answer

Terrestral

Question 3

Do compounds or atoms on Earth change if they are on another planet?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 4

How is Earth different from Jupiter?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter has way more moons than Earth, Earth is terrestrial, Jupiter is Gaseous

Question 5

What layer of the Sun is visible in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Corona

Question 6

Why is Venus hotter that Mercury even though it is farther from The Sun.

Accepted Answer

Greenhouse Effect

Question 7

What are the dark flat ares on the moon called?

Accepted Answer

Maria

Question 8

Two ways energy is transferred from the Core to the Photosphere

Accepted Answer

What is Radiation and Convection

Question 9

What is the meaning of the Universal Law of Gravitation?

Accepted Answer

Everything is attracted to each other

Question 10

Why does the Moon have more craters than Earth?

Accepted Answer

No atmosphere

Question 11

About 99.85% of the mass in our Solar System is in...

Accepted Answer

The Sun

Question 12

What holds the universe, galaxies, and solar systems together?

Accepted Answer

Gravity

Question 13

What type of tide is diagramed in the image?

Accepted Answer

Spring

Question 14

A _____ eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind Earth and into its shadow.

Accepted Answer

Lunar

Question 15

Layers of the Sun from inner-most outward.

Accepted Answer

Core,Convective Z.,Radiative Z., Photos.,Chromos.,Corona

Question 16

What type of eclipse occurs when the moon casts a shadow on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Solar

Question 17

What are Solar Flares?

Accepted Answer

When the Sun releases a massive amount of magnetic energy.

Question 18

The movement of the Earth around The Sun is an example of...

Accepted Answer

Revolution

Question 19

What protects Earth from Solar Wind?

Accepted Answer

Magnetic Field

Question 20

What do the Earth and the Sun have in common?

Accepted Answer

Has something(s) orbiting it

Question 21

What are Sun Spots?

Accepted Answer

Cooler parts of the Sun's surface.

Question 22

Bonus Points!! (Only 1 answer is correct)

Accepted Answer

Me?

Question 23

Why is only one side of The Moon visible to Earth?

Accepted Answer

Orbital Period=Rotational Period, Physics and logic

Question 24

What is a prominence? (In space terms)

Accepted Answer

A stream of gas projecting above the sun's Chromosphere

Question 25

What is true about the Sun's rotation?

Accepted Answer

The closer to the equator the faster you rotate.

Question 26

If the gravitational force between The Moon and Earth was broken, what would likely happen?

Accepted Answer

The Moon would fall into/orbit the Sun

Question 27

What is the name for the outermost layer of the Sun's interior?

Accepted Answer

Convective Zone

Question 28

What characteristic(s) do all of our gaseous planets have in common?

Accepted Answer

All

Question 29

What two forces work to create a Neap Tide?

Accepted Answer

Sun gravity vs. Moon gravity

Question 30

Why does Mercury not have an atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

Gravity is too weak

Question 31

How are seasons determined?

Accepted Answer

Little bit of everything, What hemisphere is experiencing more sunlight at the time

Question 32

What would need to happen to the object(s) to decrease the thickness of the arrows?

Accepted Answer

subtract mass and add distance

Question 33

What type of day occurs when The Sun reaches its greatest distance north/south of the equator?

Accepted Answer

Solstise

Question 34

From what region does most of the comets in our Solar System come from?

Accepted Answer

Oort Cloud

Question 35

What factors change gravitational force?

Accepted Answer

Mass & distance

6th Grade Science - SPACE

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6th Grade Science - SPACE

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