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Where do planets get their light?

Where do planets get their light?. From the sun. What is the sun?. A medium sized star around which the planets revolve. What is the brightest and largest light we see at night?. The moon. What does waning mean?. Getting smaller- shrinking light. What are moon phases?.

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Where do planets get their light?

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  1. Where do planets get their light? From the sun

  2. What is the sun? • A medium sized star around which the planets revolve

  3. What is the brightest and largest light we see at night? • The moon

  4. What does waning mean? • Getting smaller- shrinking light

  5. What are moon phases? • Different amounts of sunlight reflected off the moon

  6. What does a star do? • Burns gasses and creates light & heat

  7. True or FalseDid the President John F. Kennedy vow to put a man on the moon? • TRUE

  8. What is the fraction comparing the moon to the Earth? • 1/4

  9. What are astronomers? • People who study planets, moons, and stars

  10. What is the order of a lunar eclipse? • Sun, Earth, Moon or • Moon, Earth, Sun

  11. What is the Earth’s only natural satellite? • The moon

  12. What features will you see on the moon’s surface? • Craters, mountains, or seas (plains)

  13. What causes the tides? • The moon’s gravity

  14. Would you weigh more or less on the moon? • Less because the moon has less gravity than the Earth

  15. What is the order of a solar eclipse? • Earth, Moon, Sun • Or • Sun, Moon, Earth

  16. When does the moon have a reddish glow? • Lunar eclipse

  17. How did the moon form? • Maybe when an object collided with Earth creating a ball of gas and dust that formed the moon

  18. When was the moon thought to be formed? • About 4.5 billion years ago

  19. What formed the craters on the moon? • Meteoroids hitting its surface

  20. What is it called when there are two full moons in a month? • Blue Moon

  21. How long does a solar eclipse last? • About 7 ½ minutes

  22. Is there life on the moon? • No, because there is no atmosphere or water?

  23. What are the phases of the moon? • New moon • Waxing crescent • Waxing 1st qtr moon-half • Waxing gibbous • Full moon • Waning gibbous • Waning 3rd qtr moon-half • Waning crescent • New moon

  24. Who was involved in the space race? • USA versus the Soviet Union

  25. What is the moon made of? • Rock, dust and space debris

  26. What is an orbit? • A path of an object around another object

  27. Does the moon make it own light? • No, it reflects the sun’s light

  28. Who was the first person to walk on the moon? • Neil Armstrong

  29. Who was Neil Armstrong’s partner? • Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin

  30. What date did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon? July 20, 1969

  31. What did Neil Armstrong say? • “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

  32. What is a satellite? • An object orbiting a larger object

  33. How long does it take the moon to orbit the Earth? • About 1 month

  34. How far away is the moon? • About 238,900 miles away

  35. How many moons does Earth have? • one

  36. What is the Latin word for moon? • Luna or lunar

  37. Does the moon change shapes? • No

  38. What is the another word for sun? • sol

  39. What holds the moon in orbit around the Earth? • Earth’s gravity

  40. Do all planets have moon? • No – Mercury and Venus doesn’t

  41. What are two movements the moon makes? • Rotation and revolution

  42. How are the rotations and revolutions of the moon and Earth different? • The moon’s rotation and revolution is about the same • The Earth rotation takes much less time than its revolution

  43. What should one never do during a solar eclipse? • Look directly at the sun

  44. What are tides? • The rising and falling of the oceans caused by the moon’s gravity

  45. How often do high and low tides occur? • Every 13 hours

  46. What does waxing mean? • Getting bigger- light is growing

  47. How long can a lunar eclipse last? • Up to 3 ½ hours

  48. What are tools for seeing the moon? • Telescopes and binocular

  49. Can planets have more than one moon? • Yes • Mars has two- Phobos and Deimos • Saturn has the most

  50. Do we see both sides of the moon? • No we see the same side

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