Planets
This planet is the largest in our solar system. It is a gas giant that has a Great Red Spot which is a storm lasting for over 300 years on its surface.
What is Jupiter?
These are pieces of rock orbiting the Sun and most are located in a special belt between terrestrial planets and gas planets.
What are asteroids?
Another name for Earth's only moon.
What is Luna?
This is the force that attracts one mass to another.
What is gravity?
To turn around on a center point. It happens on a axis.
What is to rotate?
Known as Earth's "twin" this planet is named for the goddess of love. It is a terrestrial planet located before the asteroid belt.
What is Venus?
Like a big giant dirty snowball, this frozen chunk of ice and dust revolves around the Sun.
What is a comet?
The moon's gravitational pull causes this event to happen twice a day. It can be high or low.
What are ocean tides?
A huge ball of glowing gas at the center of the solar system. It is a star.
What is the Sun?
Just like an apple, what the center of planets and stars are called.
What is a core?
Explored by a Rover, this planet's soil has a reddish color. It is the 2nd smallest planet in our solar system?
What is Mars?
A chunk of rock and metal moving towards Earth.
What is a meteoroid?
Created when asteroids have hit the moon's surface.
What are craters?
An object that moves around a larger object in space. Moons are an example of these space objects.
What is a satellite?
About 51 of these in our local group, Andromeda and Milky Way are just 2 of these.
What are galaxies?
This sideways rotating planet orbits the Sun outside the asteroid belt. It is very windy and very cold with atmospheric temperatures reaching MINUS 375 F.
What is Uranus?
If a meteor does NOT burn up within the Earth's atmosphere and reaches the ground, this space object can cause a crater.
What is a METEORITE?
This does NOT happen on the moon's surface because there is no wind or water to make it occur.
What is erosion?
The gases which surround a star or planet.
What is atmosphere?
Terrestrial, gas, dwarf.
What are planets?
Named for the Roman god of the sea, this planet is not quite as cold as Uranus and has a moon named Triton that is the coldest known temperature in the solar system.
What is Neptune?
Another name for a meteor, this space object shoots through the Earth's atmosphere and is burned up BEFORE it reaches the ground.
When an object in space blocks some of the Sun's light and producing a shadow, a lunar one occurs when a full moon passes through the shadow of Earth.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The huge space which contains ALL of the matter and energy in existence.
What is the universe?
The estimated age of our planet Earth. It has grown by a billion years since 1987 due to scientific discoveries in the geologic (rock/soil) record.
What is 4.5 billion years old?