Definitions
Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Revolution and Rotation
Moon, Stars
100
The study of the universe including the solar system, stars and galaxies.
What is astronomy?
100
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
100
The 5th planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
100
The earth takes about _____ days to complete one revolution.
What is 365 days?
100
The number of phases of the Earth's moon.
What is 8?
200
The sun and all the objects that revolve around it.
What is the solar system?
200
The second closest planet to the sun.
What is Venus?
200
The 6th planet from the sun.
What is Saturn?
200
The earth takes about _____ hours to make a rotation.
What is 24 hours?
200
A glowing ball of burning gases.
What is a star?
300
The path an object follows as it revolves around another object.
What is orbit?
300
The 3rd planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
300
The 7th planet from the sun.
What is Uranus?
300
To move around another object
What is revolution?
300
The sun is a... a. planet b. star c. comet d. asteroid
What is b. star?
400
Scientists use this tool to see things far away.
What is a telescope?
400
The 4th planet from the sun.
What is Mars?
400
The 8th planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
400
The spinning of an object on its axis.
What is rotation?
400
The moon revolves around ______.
What is the Earth?
500
An unmanned space vehicle.
What is a probe?
500
Name the 8 planets in order from closest to the sun to furthest from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
500
The furthest "planet" from the sun that was recently unqualified from being a planet and is renamed a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
500
The Earth revolves around the ______.
What is sun?
500
An object that revolves around a larger object in space.
What is a satellite?
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