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Potpourri
EARTH
PLANETS
UNIVERSE
100
Star closest to the Earth.
What is THE SUN.
100

The Sun and all the bodies that Orbit it.

What is the Solar System.

100
An imaginary center line around which Earth rotates.
What is the Axis.
100

Name the Rocky/Terrestrial planets.

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

100
A huge system of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity.
What is a Galaxy.
200
A cloud of gas and dust in which new stars form.
What is a nebula.
200

What planets revolve around the Sun and rotate on their axes (Ak-zees)?

Trick question:

All of them

200
The Earth's ___________ gives us day and night.
What is rotation.
200

Name the Gas planets.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

200
The distance light travels in one year.
What is a light-year.
300
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a CONSTELLATION.
300

What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?

Both are space rocks...

Meteor stays in the atmosphere.

Meteorite strikes Earth's surface.

300

It takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to make one of these around the sun.

What is an Orbit or Revolution.

300

Name the little guy who was demoted to dwarf planet status.

Bonus....why?

Pluto.  

Pluto lacks the massive gravitational strength needed to pull in or push away other space rocks and debris in its path

300
A rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide that revolves around the Sun.
What is an Asteroid.
400
A point in space that has such a strong force of gravity that nothing within a certain distance of it can escape.
What is a BLACK HOLE.
400

Name 2 characteristics of all inner planets.

thin atmosphere

rocky/solid surface

large solid core

higher density

400
The natural Satellite that orbits the earth.
What is the Moon.
400

What are two reasons Venus is known as Earth's twin?  

similar size, mass, and location.

400

A frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the Sun.

Comet.

500

Give 2 likely reasons a star may appear brighter than another from Earth.

Closer to Earth

Greater luminosity (true brightness)

Bigger size

Hotter surface temperature

500
The center of our solar system is
What is the sun.
500

This planet is often compared to Earth for is potential habitability.

Mars

500

Which 2 planets have huge storms in their atmospheres that make large spots?

Bonus:  What are the spots' names?

Jupiter - Great Red Spot

Neptune - Great Dark Spot

500

Order by smallest to greatest:

galaxy, solar system, universe

solar system

galaxy

universe

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