This planet is eighth from the sun. It can only be seen through a telescope. Little is known about this distant planet.
What is Neptune?
100
It is made up of the sun and its family of eight planets.
What is the solar system?
100
This is now called a "dwarf planet."
What is Pluto?
100
These objects produce and give off their own heat and light.
What are stars?
100
This is how long it takes the moon to circle Earth.
What is 27 days?
200
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
200
This is the galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
200
List the planets in order of size from largest to smallest.
What is Jupiter > Saturn > Uranus > Neptune > Earth > Venus > Mars > Mercury
200
These have bright heads and long, shining tails. They shine partly because of light absorbed and re-radiated from the sun and partly because of reflected sunlight.
What are comets?
200
State any of the 3 conditions required for a body in space to be a planet.
1.It must orbit the sun?
2.It must have enough mass for its own gravity to shape it into a sphere.
3.It must be massive enough to form it's own orbit.
300
This planet is fifth from the sun. It is the largest planet and is best known for its colours and its "Giant Red Spot."
What is Jupiter?
300
This is the centre of the solar system. The planets revolve around it.
What is the sun?
300
This planet is called the morning and evening star, because it appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise.
What is Venus?
300
These are chunks of rock and metal that orbit between the planets.
What are asteroids?
300
All things that exist in space (e.g. planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies).
What is the Universe?
400
This planet is seventh from the sun. Unlike other planets, this planet lies on its side. It is greenish colour and has nine faint rings with 5 moons orbiting the planet.
What is Uranus?
400
This body travels around Earth. It is known as Earth's satellite.
What is the moon?
400
This is another name for the study of space.
What is astronomy?
400
This is a body that does not give off light of its own. It reflects the light of the sun.
What is a planet?
400
A meteoroid that does not completely burn up in the atmosphere and lands on Earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
500
This planet is sixth from the sun. It is best known for the beautiful system of rings that circle the planet.
What is Saturn?
500
This is how long it takes Earth to circle the sun.
What is 365 days?
500
These are collections of rocks and frozen gases that orbit between the planets.
What are comets?
500
These are patterns of stars in the sky that, to some people, seem to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
500
The streak of light in the night sky that results from a meteoroid entering Earth’s atmosphere; a shooting star.