Planets
Earth
Space Rocks
The Sun
Random Space Challenge
1
Name the 4 inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
1
Name the imaginary line around the center of the earth.
What is the equator?
1
Name a space rock made of ice and dust.
What is a comet?
1
Tell how many stars are in the sky.
What is too many to count?
1
Tell how many hours in one Earth day.
What is 24 hours?
2
Name the 4 outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
2
Name the 4 seasons.
What are spring, summer, fall (autumn), and winter?
2
Name the object that burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
2
Name the star that is closest to Earth.
What is the sun?
2
What position is Earth from the sun?
What is third?
3
Name the only known planet with water.
What is Earth?
3
Name what happens as the earth rotates (spins) on its axis.
What is day and night?
3
Describe the difference between a dwarf planet and an asteroid.
What is an irregular shape?
3
What size of star is the sun?
What is a medium size star?
3
Tell how long it takes the moon to orbit the earth.
What is approximately one month?
4
Name the largest planet?
What is Jupiter?
4
Tell how long it takes the earth to revolve around (orbit) the sun.
What is one year?
4
A large piece of rock found between Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?
4
Every object revolves around the Sun in this kind of path.
What is an ellipse?
4
Which is warmer, direct or indirect sunlight.
What is direct sunlight?
5
Name 1 reason why scientists say that Pluto is no longer a planet.
What is it is too small? What is there are other objects in space larger than Pluto?
5
Name the reason for the seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth?
5
True or False-All the planets have just 1 moon.
What is false?
5
Name the galaxy in which we are found.
What is the Milky Way?
5
Tell how long each season lasts.
What is 3 months?
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