Bill Nye Outer Space Questions and Answers 100% Pass
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Bill Nye Outer Space Questions and
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What causes day and night on Earth?
Day and night are caused by the Earth's rotation on its axis, with one side facing the sun
experiencing day and the other side in darkness experiencing night.
What is a black hole?
A black hole is...
Bill Nye Outer Space Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
What causes day and night on Earth?
✔✔Day and night are caused by the Earth's rotation on its axis, with one side facing the sun
experiencing day and the other side in darkness experiencing night.
What is a black hole?
✔✔A black hole is a region in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not
even light, can escape from it.
How do stars form?
✔✔Stars form from clouds of gas and dust in space that collapse under their own gravity,
leading to nuclear fusion in their cores.
What is the Milky Way?
✔✔The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our solar system, composed of billions of stars,
planets, and other celestial objects.
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, What is the difference between a comet and an asteroid?
✔✔Comets are icy bodies that release gas and dust when they approach the sun, while asteroids
are rocky objects that mostly exist in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
How does the sun produce energy?
✔✔The sun produces energy through nuclear fusion, where hydrogen atoms combine to form
helium, releasing immense amounts of energy in the process.
What are the phases of the moon?
✔✔The phases of the moon include new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous,
full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, and waning crescent.
What is gravity?
✔✔Gravity is the force that attracts two bodies toward each other, keeping planets in orbit
around stars and holding us on the surface of the Earth.
How far is the Earth from the sun?
✔✔The average distance from the Earth to the sun is about 93 million miles (150 million
kilometers).
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