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The planets
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100

This person was the first to formulate and test the law of universal gravitation.

Who is Newton?

100

This is the Earth's motion around the sun.

What is revolution?

100

This is a planet type that is closest to the sun and is considered to be rocky.

What is a terrestrial planet?

100

This is what causes the moon's phases.

What is changes in howmuch of the sunlit side of the moon faces Earth.

100

This is what some people beleive the moon is made of?

What is cheese?

200

This person's most important contribution to astronomy was his description of the behavior of moving objects.

Who is Galileo?

200

This is the wobbling or slow change in the direction in Earth's tilt.

What is precession?

200

This is a list of inner planets in order?

What is mercury, venus, earth, and mars?

200

This is the sources of meteroids.

What is leftover interplanetary debris, material from the asteroid belt, and remnants of comets?

200

This is orange and sounds like a parrot.

What is a carrot?

300

This person discovered that the planets orbit the sun in the shape of ellipses.

Who is Kepler?

300

This is when the moon casts a dark shadow on the Earth.

What is a solar eclipse?

300

This is the largest terrestrial planet.

What is Earth?

300

This has been used date the age of the solar system?

What are meteorites?

300

This is cheese that does not belong to you.

What is nacho cheese?

400

This person first said that the solar system is a heliocentric model.

Who is Copernicus?

400

This model has the planet Earth at the center of the solar system.

What is a geocentric model?

400

This is why Mercury has no atmosphere.

It reflects only a small percentage of sunlight, all the rest is absorbed and burns off the atmospehre.

400

This is a comet that was seen here in the US.

What is Halley's comet?

400

This is why you shouldn't tell an egg a joke.

What is it might crack up?

500

This person also said that the planets move fastest when it closest to the sun.

Who is Kepler?

500

This model has the sun at the center of the solar system.

What is heliocentric model?

500

This is one reason life is unlikely to exist on Venus.

What is the high surface temperature?

500

This is another name for shooting stars.

What is meteoroid?

500

This is why the apple and orange were all alone.

What is because the banana split?

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