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40 Cards in this Set
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Name the smallest constellation;
it has 4 very bright stars. |
the Southern Cross
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The long crossbar of the
Southern Cross points to the _______ ________. |
South Pole
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Name the most famous constellation
in the Northern Hemisphere. |
the Big Dipper
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The Big Dipper is part of the
constellation called the ______ _______. |
Great Bear
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The North Star is at the end
of the "handle" of the _______ ________. |
Little Dipper
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On the side of the cup of the
Big Dipper are two bright stars called _________ ______. |
Pointer Stars
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The Big Dipper's two Pointer
Stars point in a straight line to the _____ ____. |
North Star
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If you face the North Star,
you are facing north and your left hand points ______. |
west
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The last star in the Big
Dipper's handle is the nose of the ________ _______. |
Great Bear
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What constellation named after
an animal is just below the Great Bear? |
Leo the Lion
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The Great Bear is looking at
the horn of the __________. |
Herdsman
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What is the name of the
famous hunter constellation in the southern sky? |
Orion
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Why do we see stars only at night?
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The earth's atmosphere scatters
sunlight and makes the sky too bright to see stars during the day. |
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The distance from the earth
to the sun is __________ miles. |
93,000,000
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What star is closest to the earth?
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the sun
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Which is smaller, the sun or the earth?
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the earth
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Which is smaller, the earth or the moon?
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the moon
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The sun is made entirely of _________.
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gases
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The sun gives off a constant
amount of energy in the form of ______ and ______. |
heat and light
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Light travels from the sun at
________ miles a second and takes ______ minutes to reach the earth. |
186,000 miles a second; 8 minutes
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What do we call the force
that pulls us to the earth? |
gravity
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The ______ gravity keeps the
planets circling the sun. |
sun's
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Some of the sun's energy is
_______, or soaked up by things on the earth. |
absorbed
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Some of the sun's energy is
__________, or bounced back by things on the earth. |
reflected
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Dark things _______ a lot of
heat but ________ very little. |
asorb .....
reflect |
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If the moon is so much smaller
than the earth and the sun, why does it appear so big in the sky? |
Because the moon is so much closer to us.
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How far is the moon from the earth?
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240,000 miles
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On July, 1969, what astronauts
were the first two men to walk on the moon? |
Neil Armstrong an
Edwin Aldrin |
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Since the moon doesn't produce
any light of its own, why does it appear so bright? |
The moon reflects the light from the sun.
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What do we call it when the moon
is between the earth and the sun? |
a new moon ....
we can't see the moon so it is like "no moon" |
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Since the moon is small and
has no atmosphere, it also has no ______ to breathe. |
air
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If there is no air on the moon,
could you hear sounds there? |
no ...
sound waves would need air to travel through. |
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Plants and animals cannot live
on the moon because there is no ____ and _______ there. |
air and water
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On which day did God create
day and night? |
day 1
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On which day did God create
the atmosphere? |
day 2
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On which day did God create
dry land? |
day 3
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On which day did God create
the sun, moon, and stars? |
day 4
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On which day did god create
the birds and water animals? |
day 5
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On which day did God create
land-dwelling animals and man? |
day 6
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What did god do on the 7th day?
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He rested
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