Moon
Planets
Tilts and Forces
Hodge Podge
Mixed Bag
100
This time-tracking system based on the moon's phases is still used today.
What is the lunar calendar?
100
This planet is closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
100
This is the reason for Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
100
A galaxy where our solar system is found that shares its name with a candy bar.
What is the Milky Way?
100
Another word for "heavenly" or "in space."
What is celestial?
200
This is what doesn't happen on the moon, and the main reason we are able to see craters on the moon.
What is erosion?
200
This planet is the only one that has life.
What is Earth?
200
The force that depends on mass but is responsible for weight.
What is gravity?
200
The action of one object hitting another. Can really cause some damage.
What is "impact?"
200
Fragments of rock broken by a powerful force, such as a volcanic explosion.
What is debris?
300
We can only witness this during a full moon, when Earth is between the Sun and the Moon. it happens two to four times a year.
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
This is the planet that is also known as the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
300
This celestial orb is the center of the universe because it has the most mass.
What is the Sun?
300
Earth's revolution around the Sun in time.
What is a year?
300
This is sometimes called a "shooting star" but not until it hits Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
400
The Moon is Earth's only natural one.
What is a satellite?
400
This is the planet where you will weight the most.
What is Jupiter?
400
The turning of a planet on its axis.
What is rotation?
400
Earth's rotation in time?
What is a day?
400
This is a gaseous mass in space which makes energy by thermonuclear reactions.
What is a star?
500
The phase of the moon when we are unable to see the Moon at all.
What is a New Moon?
500
This planet has an atmosphere of stinky methane gas.
What is Uranus?
500
If it wasn't for gravitational pull, the planets in our solar system would not be able to do this around the Sun.
What is revolve (or orbit)?
500
A darkened shape or absence of light. This is responsible for why the moon looks the way it does to use during its phases.
What is shadow?
500
A very large cluster of billions to trillions of stars bound together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
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