Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Vocabulary
Solar System
Random
100
This planet is the hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Venus
100
This planet has the most brilliant rings in our solar system.
What is Saturn
100
This the shape of a planet's orbit.
What is an ellipse.
100
What causes the seasons on Earth?
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis.
100
This planet has faint rings and the least number of moons of the outer planets.
What is Neptune.
200
This planet supports life in the solar system.
What is the Earth
200
This planet is the largest in our solar system.
What is Jupiter
200
This is an imaginary line that passes through a planet and the planet rotates on.
What is an axis.
200
This type of eclipse happens when the Earth passes into the moon's shadow.
What is a solar eclipse.
200
This eclipse happens least often.
What is solar eclipse.
300
This planet has the shortest year in our solar system.
What is Mercury
300
This planet has the longest year in our solar system.
What is Neptune.
300
This is a patter of stars.
What is a constellation.
300
This type of eclipse occurs when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse.
300
This is the color the moon turns when a lunar eclipse takes place.
What is red.
400
This planet is known as the "Red Planet."
What is Mars
400
This planet rotates on its side.
What is Uranus.
400
Our sun is this sized star.
What is a medium-sized star.
400
If it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is winter.
400
This planet looks very much like our moon.
What is Mercury.
500
This planet has two moons.
What is Mars
500
This planet has the "Great Red Spot," which is a large storm that has been raging for centuries.
What is Jupiter.
500
This separates the inner planets and outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt.
500
This causes us to see the moon appear to look differently during the month.
What is different amounts of the lighted half of the moon face Earth.
500
This astronaut was the first American to orbit the Earth in the Freedom 7 capsule.
Who is John Glenn.
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