Solar System
Where the sun is located.
What is the center of our solar system?
The name of our galaxy.
What is The Milky Way?
How long does it take Earth to rotate one time?
What is 1 day or 24 hours?
This is the 3rd planet from the sun?
What is Earth?
What is day and night?
The phrase we learned to remember the order of the planets
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This is a part of an Asteroid that burns up in the atmosphere.
What is a Meteor?
The inner planets of the solar system are classified as this.
What are rocky (or terrestrial) planets?
What is Earth's revolution?
Earth's revolution along with the tilt of the Earth give us this.
What are the seasons?
This planet is closer to the Sun: Venus or Jupiter?
What is Venus?
The planet with the shortest year
What is Mercury?
Earth's revolution takes this long
What is one year, 365 days, 12 months, or 52 weeks?
This is a large celestial body that emits light and is made up of gas.
What is a Star?
The direction the Earth rotates and revolves.
What is counter clockwise?
Most notable characteristic(s) of the outer planets versus the inner planets.
What is larger size and/or made up of gases.
What colour is the hottest stars?
What is Blue/Blue-White
Why would it be more difficult for the astronauts to run while they are in space?
What is lack of gravity
This revolves around the Earth about every 27 days.
What is the moon?
This holds all the gases in a ball and keeps the planets in their orbit.
What is Gravity?
This the percentage of Earth covered by water.
What is more than 70%?
The 8 planets in our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Which celestial body has the most gravity in our solar system?
What is the Sun?
The four outer planets are collectively called this.
What are Gas giants?
What we call an asteroid when it hits the Earth
What is a meteorite?