What holds all parts of the solar system in place?
What is gravity?
200
What is an asteroid?
What is a relatively small rocky object that orbits the sun?
200
The Solar System is ______ years old.
What is 4.6 billion?
200
Which planet has a big red spot?
What is Jupiter?
200
What are the imaginary paths that our plants orbit on called?
What is an ellipse?
300
What is a comet?
What is a small orbiting body made of dust, ice and frozen gases?
300
___________ is the biggest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
300
What is the center of our solar system?
What is the star?
300
What is the difference between a meteor, meteorite and meteoroid?
What is
Meteor: a streak of light caused by a chunk of matter that enters Earth’s atmosphere and is heated by friction with air.
Meteoroids – the chunks of matter that are causing the streak of light (meteor)
Meteorites – when the falling rock stays intact and strike the ground...they are called meteorites
400
What is a planet?
What is a large body that orbits the sun?
400
_______ is a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
400
What are the four outer planets?
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
400
Please list the planets in order.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?