1. Astronomy Unit Review Read the question
Write your answer on the white board
Write ONLY the answer

2. What are the largest of the small bodies orbiting the sun?
Question #7:
What are the largest of the small bodies orbiting the sun?

3. Answer:
Asteroids

4. The asteroid belt is between which two planets?
Question #8:
The asteroid belt is between which two planets?

5. Answer:
Mars and Jupiter

6. The tail of a comet always points in which direction?
Question #9:
The tail of a comet always points in which direction?
(toward or away from sun)

7. Answer:
Away from the sun

8. What is a meteoroid called when it reaches Earth’s atmosphere?
Question #10:
What is a meteoroid called when it reaches Earth’s atmosphere?

9. Answer:
A Meteor

10. When a meteor burns up in our atmosphere, what does it look like?
Question #11:
When a meteor burns up in our atmosphere, what does it look like?

11. Answer:
A shooting star

12. Question #12:
What is it called when many meteoroids enter our atmosphere in a short period of time?

13. Answer:
A Meteor Shower

14. Name the four inner planets.
Question #35:
Name the four inner planets.

15. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Answer:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

16. What are the four outer planets called?
Question #36:
What are the four outer planets called?

17. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Answer:
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

18. What is the closest planet to the sun?
Question #37:
What is the closest planet to the sun?

19. Answer:
Mercury

20. Which planet is known as Earth’s twin?
Question #38:
Which planet is known as Earth’s twin?

21. Answer:
Venus

22. Which planet has Olympus Mons on it?
Question #39:
Which planet has Olympus Mons on it?

23. Answer:
Mars

24. Which planet is the largest?
Question #40:
Which planet is the largest?

25. Answer:
Jupiter

26. Which planet has a red spot that is a storm?
Question #41:
Which planet has a red spot that is a storm?

27. Answer:
Jupiter ---- again

28. Which planet has the most complex system of rings?
Question #42:
Which planet has the most complex system of rings?

29. Answer:
Saturn

30. Question #43:
Which planet has a horizontal axis, making it rotate differently from the rest?

31. Answer:
Uranus

32. Question #44:
Which planet has a very active weather system with winds that exceed 1,000 km/hr?

33. Answer:
Neptune

34. What do we call a body that orbits another body?
Question #45:
What do we call a body that orbits another body?

35. Answer:
A satellite

36. Does the moon have more or less gravity than Earth?
Question #46:
Does the moon have more or less gravity than Earth?

37. Answer:
less

38. What are the bowl-shaped depressions on the moon called?
Question #47:
What are the bowl-shaped depressions on the moon called?

39. Answer:
Craters

40. Question #48:
What is it called when one planetary body passes through the shadow of another?

41. Answer:
An eclipse

42. Question #49:
What is it called when the moon is between the Earth and the sun and blocks the sun’s light?

43. Answer:
Solar Eclipse

44. Question #50:
What is it called when the Earth is in the middle of the moon and the sun and blocks the moon?

45. Answer:
Lunar eclipse

46. Question #51:
What is it called when the part of the moon reflecting light is getting bigger?

47. Answer:
Waxing

48. Question #52:
What is it called when the part of the moon reflecting the light is getting smaller?

49. Answer:
Waning

50. What is the phase of the moon that is completely dark?
Question #53:
What is the phase of the moon that is completely dark?

51. Answer:
New moon

52. What is the phase of the moon that is showing all of it illuminated?
Question #54:
What is the phase of the moon that is showing all of it illuminated?

53. Answer:
Full moon

54. Which phase of the moon has slightly less than a full appearance?
Question #55:
Which phase of the moon has slightly less than a full appearance?

55. Answer:
Gibbous

56. Which phase of the moon has less than the quarter moon showing?
Question #56
Which phase of the moon has less than the quarter moon showing?

57. Answer:
Crescent

58. This concludes today’s review activity.
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