Wonders of the Night Sky

The aurora borealis is also called the

• The North Star

• The North Pole

• 
  The Northern Lights

• The Southern Lights

What does the aurora borealis look like?

• the colorful bands of light in the sky

• the meteors to enter Earth's atmosphere.

• a warmer equator

• Earth spins on its axis

Why do the aurora borealis lights happen?

• the moon

• magnetic attraction

• the sun

• kinetic attraction

Where does the word comet come from?

• A Spanish word that means "rocks from space"

• A Latin word that means "star in the sky"

• A Greek word that means "wearing long hair"

• An Egyptian word that means "debris from Earth"

What Greek philosopher thought that comets looked like stars with hair?

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Da Vinci

• Socrates

Why did people fear comets long ago?

• They thought the comet would burn the planet.

• They thought it was gonna fall on earth.

• They thought aliens were coming

• They believed that they might bring war and sickness to Earth.

What happens when a comet comes closer to the sun?

• that a cloud of gas and rain is pushed out behind the comet.

• a tail of gas and dust is pushed out behind the comet.

• a oval shape of gas and dust is pushed out behind the comet.

• a ball of gas and flames is pushed out behind the comet

Meteors are another name for

• the heat formed around the Earth's equator.

• the Northern Lights

• the gas and flames from the sun.

• rocky debris and fragments that enter Earth's atmosphere.

When might we see a meteor shower and shooting stars?

• when the Earth passes through an area in space with a lot of debris.

• When the sun is setting in the west.

• 
  When the sun is rising in the east.

• when the northern lights are visible

What does an astronomer study?

• The moon, stars and planets.

• The people in space

• They study the ocean and its animals

• They study technology