Solar System/Space

Solar System 1

100

This is a giant sphere or ball of gases that produces light and heat.

What is a star?

200

What is made up of the sun and all of the objects that travel around it?

What is the Solar System?

300

These are the four inner planets.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?

400

What are the outer planets?

What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

500

This is the largest planet in the solar system.

What is Jupiter?

Solar System 2

100

When Galileo observed Jupiter he saw 4 objects around the planet. What might these be?

a. dwarf planets

b.solar systems

c. meteroids

d. moons

d. moons

200

This is the second largest planet.

What is Saturn?

300

This is a natural body that revolves around the Earth. 

Moon 

400

What force keeps the planets in orbit? 

Gravity 

500

This is the shape of planets' paths around the Sun - it is not quite a circle.

What is elliptical?

Solar System 3

100

This means to travel in a path around another object.

What is revolve?

200

This is a planet's path around the Sun.

What is orbit?

300

This means to spin around an axis.

What is rotate?

400

This is a round object that is smaller than a planet but is not a moon and has an irregular orbit.

What is a dwarf planet?

500

These are large pieces of space rock with irregular shapes and is found between Mars and Jupiter.

What is an asteroid?

Solar System 4

100

This is a space object made up of dust and ice.

What is a comet?

200

This is a rocky body with an irregular shape that is smaller than an asteroid and is known as a shooting star.

What is a meteoroid?

300

Another Name for the Outer Planets? 

Gas Giants 

400

Another name for the Inner Planets? 

Rocky Planets 

500

Why does it take so long for Neptune to revolve around the Sun? 

Neptune is a long distance away-Last planet 

Solar System 5

100

This is the imaginary line through the middle of Earth or any sphere.

What is an axis?

200

Scientists use models to represent or explain things. Why are models useful for the study of the solar system?

a. models cannot be proved wrong

b. models are always accepted by scientists

c. models describe the way things actually are

d. models can be used to describe how things work

d. models can be used to describe how things work

300

What is a starburst?

Rapid formation of new stars

400

True or False?

If I were to put a small star next to a big star, the larger star would be brighter.

True

500

What is the 5th planet from the sun?

Jupiter