Vocablary
Planets
Earth facts
Things in the Solar System
Planet Facts
100
The thin layer of gas that surrounds the earth or other planets. It helps hold in heat and block out harmful rays.
What is the atmosphere?
100
The 3rd planet from the sun.
What is Earth
100
How many days does it take for earth to rotate around the sun
What is 365
100
At night what is the largest, brightest object in the sky?
What is the moon
100
What is the name of Jupiters moon that is covered with ice
What is Europa
200
A star and all of the planets, asteroids, meteoriods, moons, and comets that are caught in its gravitational pull.
What is a solar system
200
The only planet in our solar system with water in all three states, solid, liquid, and gas.
What is Earth
200
How many hour does it take for earth to make one revolution on its axis?
What is 24
200
A large rock that orbits the sun is called this
What is an asteroid
200
What is the sun made of
What is helium, and hydrogen
300
A bright rock like object that shoots through the solar system. it has a long tail of fire. it is usually composed of compressed dirty ice.
What is a comet
300
The planet that is closest to the sun
What is mercury
300
How many natural satelites does earth have?
What is one
300
A rock usually smaller than an asteroid that makes a path through our solar system is called this.
What is a meteroid
300
What planet has sulfuric acid raining down on it
What is venus
400
The force that holds all the planets in orbit around the sun
What is gravitational pull. or gravity
400
The largest planet
What is jupiter
400
Earth atmosphere is composed mainly of these two elements.
What is Nitrogen, and oxygen
400
Another name for a shooting star would be what?
What is a meteor?
400
name a planet that spins backwards.
What is venus
500
A meteroid that has entered earths atmosphere is called this.
What is a meteor.
500
How many earths would fit in jupiter?
What is 11
500
the tilt of the earth on its axis.
What is twenty- three and a half degrees.
500
What is the path that a planet follows called
What is an orbit
500
What is saturns largest moon called
What is Titan
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