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Lunar Cycle and Tides
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The shape of the visible part of the moon when it is more than half full.. The fifth phase of the lunar cycle. (lasts one day). The seventh phase of the lunar cycle. (lasts one day). Getting smaller.. Low tide and high tide happens ___ times a day..
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Mercury
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The core of Mercury is made up of this.. Craters and famous features are named after deceased ____, musicians, or authors.. The name of the main mission that went to Mercury.. If the gravitational compression is not considered, Mercury is the ____ planet.. Mercury has ___ real atmosphere..
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Mercury : the Planet
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core component. holes on the surface. mercury is 1/3 the size of this planet. has none of these. path around the sun.
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Meteors
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Result of the Earth crossing paths with a comets meteoroid stream. Most abundant category of meteorites. Cause of the streak of light that we know as a meteor. Largest known meteorite on planet Earth. A grain of this is the average size of a meteorite.
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Moon
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the _____ of the moon can affect the tides. the solar system is in ____.. you see the moon at its best at ____.. holes. a full moon is in the shape of a ______..
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Moon
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when three celestial bodies line up but not perfectly. when three celestial bodies line up. moon at its brightest. crescent gaining light. when three celestial bodies perfectly line up.
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Moon Phases
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a partially depleted part of the moon.. equal sun for everybody :D. the 'werewolf' moon. half of the moon. an almost complete part of the moon..
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Moons
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Large moon of Saturn and has liquid lakes. Something other than water that Europa and Earth has in common. ______s have been seen jetting out of Europa and Enceladus. Sixth planet from our sun and has 62 moons. Small moon of Jupiter and the sixth largest moon in our solar system.
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Neptune
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This particle give the Neptune’s particular color.. The largest moon of Neptune.. Like all the outer planets, Neptune has __________.. It is the main component of the Neptune’s atmosphere.. Neptune appears __________..
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Neptune
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A planet
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something a lot of women wear. a word that means 'to spin'. something very high. something that is in a few fruits. the color of the sky.
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Neptune, Uranus, & Jupiter
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The planet Uranus was named after ancient _____ gods.. The planets Jupiter and Neptune were named after ancient _____ gods.. Nasa Earth Exchange (short form). The fourth Galilean moon of Jupiter. This was a NASA mission to Jupiter..
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Our Solar System
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Named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, this planet is the second-brightest object in the sky, and is occasionally visible during the day!. Often called Terra in films. The number of planets . This planet is named after the Roman god of the sea. . This planet bears the name of Zeus' grandfather.
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Planet Earth
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a split. a way to test what type of rock. a shiny or glow. cracking or breaking of a hard mateial. changes from one mateial to another.
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Planet Mercury
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dry and rocky. Nearest plant. What the core is mostly made of. Holes in the surface. Mercury has none.
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Planets
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Often confused as a star. Orbits the sun. Spinning in a circle. 24 hours. Lies at the bottom of the sky.
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Planets
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A dwarf-planet (not a real planet). The planet that is part rock, part gas. The gas giant with horizontal rings. It is a star at the centre of the solar system. The red planet.
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Planets
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dwarf planet. galaxy. close to earth. planet with rings. center of solar system.
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Planets
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About 75% of the Earth is made of this substance. Earth's twin. The least dense planet in the solar system. A rover landed on this planet and discovered traces of water. Bluish in color because of methane gas in the atmosphere.
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Planets
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usually the most distant planet in the solar system.. The second planet from the sun (the Earth is third) is named.... 6th planet from the sun. hottest planet in our solar system. The Roman name of Ares, the Greek and Roman god of war..
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Planets
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What was the smallest planet before it became a Dwarf planet?. What is the brightest planet?. What is the 2nd biggest planet?. Where was the biggest volcano found in our Solar system?. What is the biggest planet?.
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Planets
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The only dwarf planet. Planet named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.. Has multiple rings around this planet. A star. Named after a tasty chocolate bar.
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Planets in the Solar System
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The atmosphere is so thick and traps so much heat that this planet has the hottest surface temperatures of any planet.. This planet’s moon Titan is actually bigger than Mercury. These types of planets are small, dense and have rocky surfaces.. This is the only other planet that shows evidence that liquid water may be present.. These types of planets do not have solid surfaces and are much larger and more massive than the Earth..
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Reach For The Stars
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it's high . something you see when you walk. a big cat. it's really loud. it's has stars in it.
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Science Solar System Abrie
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Neptune has 14 _________ moons.. 70% of Earths surface is ________.. ___________ is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.. ___________ has 62 known moons.. Venus's surface is hot enough to melt __________..
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Shooting Star's
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is the combining of nuclei of light atoms. the lightset of all gases and the most abondant element in the universe. the characteristic physical property of a subtance is equal to the mass divided by the volume. is the spontaneous distintegration of a nucleus into a slightly lighter and more. is a pure substance made of only one kind of atom.
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Small Bodies in Space & Planets
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the sun. the hottest planet in the solar system. recognized for its bright and large rings. most live in the asteroid belt. the 'red planet'.
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Solar Sun
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Clouds of glowing gases that follow curved lines.. The process of combining to or more nuclei. . the zone surrounding the core.. Bands of light usually seen at the poles, due to solar wind interacting with Earth's Magnetosphere.. The photosphere is known as this..
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Solar System
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distance light travels in a vacuum. cluster of stars, or a cloud of dust particles and gases. . a _______ is the object that follows its own orbit. turning on an axis. the Milkyway s a ____________.
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Solar System
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The hottest planet out of all. This planet is made of mostly hydrogen adn helium. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. The farthest inner planet from the sun.
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Solar System
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Neptune's _____ atmosphere causes its bluish-green color.. The _____ planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.. The _____ planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The solar system formed from a piece of a _____ of gas, ice, and dust.. In the solar system, planets revolve around _____..
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Solar System
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Twinkle, twinkle. Large circular objects in sky, alongside stars. They circle planets or fingers. A chocolate bar with creamy centre. Second planet from the sun.
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Solar System
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The distance that light travels in one year.. A star's luminosity if it were at a standard distance from Earth.. The tendency of an object to resist change in motion.. A large cloud of dust and gas where all stars begin their lives.. A huge group of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity..
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Solar System
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Saturn's largest moon. the sun is a . how many planets are larger than earth. 2nd planet. the sun orbits the earth.
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Solar System
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Look up at night there it is.. The region beyond the orbit of Neptune.. The closest dwarf planet to the Sun.. Used to be a planet.. The mass at the middle of a black hole..
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Solar system
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huge, made up mostly of gases, no solid surface, small cores, many rings describe this. Earth's home galaxy, looks like a faint band of _____________.. billions of stars, gas and DUST.. type of galaxy with no particular shape, stars are RANDOMLY SCATTERED. largest stars are usually the ___________..
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Solar System
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A large round hole in the ground made by the explosion of a bomb or by something falling from the sky.. Any one of the objects in space that are made of burning gas and that look like points of light in the night sky.. It is too small to be a planet and is the farthest from the sun.. The planet that is second in order from the sun.. A planet surrounded by large rings..
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Solar System
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an object that moves around another object in space. different shapes of the moon. a large object that moves around a star. the motion of a planet or other object as it turns on its axis. the movement of one object around another in space.
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Solar System
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Items and Probes to the Solar System and Beyond
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Only Probe so far the study the Kuiper Belt (USA). Second Planet. The only planet with animal life. Green Gas Giant Planet. Place where Comets come From.
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Solar System
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Third planet from the sun. Earth's 'sister' planet. The farthest planet from the sun. Chunks of rock, dust and ice orbiting the sun (with long tails). Blue planet on its side.
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Solar System
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An object’s spinning motion about its own axis . The number of planets in our solar system. Farthest planet from the sun . Dirty snowballs of our solar system. A large celestial body that orbits a star and is big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical shape..
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Solar System Formation
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cold interstellar gas cloud. _________is a captured moon of Neptune. thick bubble of icy debris that surrounds our solar system. Our moon formed from a __________ of another object with Earth. exerted upon any surface exposed to electromagnetic radiation.
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Solar Sytem
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The temperatures and pressures inside a star are so great that nuclear '......' can happen. Is a large collection of stars. Nuclear reactions release energy to keep the star '...'. The age of our sun its about five '.......' years. The name of our sun.
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Space
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When a red giant collapses on itself and shrinks in size. A small object that orbit the earth and makes GPS work.. Groups of stars named in honor of mythological beings.. The first stage in the life cycle of a star. Grouping of millions or billions of stars, gas and dust..
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Space
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Large bright stars that are smaller and fainter than supergiants. Distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year, about 9.5 trillion kilometers. Huge loops of gas that erupt from sunspot regions. Small dense remains of a low or medium mass star. How a bright a star really is.
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Space
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large bright stars that are smaller and fainter than supergiants . Distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year, about 9.5 trillion kilometers. Small dense remains of a low or medium mass star. how a bright a star really is. A graph of surface temp or color and absolute brightness of a sample of stars.
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Space
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Read the hint and below the word on the box
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The people that go to space. The thing that astronaut drive to go to the space. The moon of Saturn that bigger what we call?. The thing is bigger than the sun. The thing the astronaut put in space.
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Space
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Test your knowledge. Try our very own space crossword.
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Saturn has these. A layer of gases surrounding the earth. When the moon blocks the sun. ________ belt. The closest star to earth.
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Space
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a measurement equal to the distance that light travels in 1 year; about 6 trillion miles. a natural or man-made object that revolves around another object in space. a bowl-shaped pit usually caused by meteorites. huge globe of hat gases that shines by its own light. a huge cloud of gas and dust in space.
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Space
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A north and north magnet will ------. Planet with life on it. Planet named after the roman God of the sea. The earth gives off this which allows a compass to work. Earth is a -------.
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Space
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last planet . first man on the moon. ball of ice, dust and rock that orbits the sun. model of universe with the sun in the centre. the last 4 planets after Mars.
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