Gravity
The Sun and its Neighbors
Stars
Planets
Vocabulary
100

Two times the mass would equal this much force:

two times the mass = __________  the force

What is two times?
100

The galaxy we live in.

What is The Milky Way?

100

What are the dark areas on the Sun's surface called?

What are sunspots?

100

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are called these types of planets.

What are the inner planets?

100

A huge system of gas, dust, and stars.

What is a galaxy?

200

Two objects with a smaller distance between them equals this kind of gravitational force.

What is a stronger?

200

What is the name for a natural satellite that orbits around another body such as Earth?

What is a moon?

200

What life cycle stage is our star currently in?

What is the main-sequence star stage?

200
This group of planets have shorter revolutions around the sun.

What are the inner planets?

200

The attraction between Earth and objects at or near its surface.

What is gravity?

300

Two objects with a greater distance between two objects equals what kind of gravitational force.

What is weaker?

300

A small, orbiting body made of dust, ice, and frozen gases. Has a tail.

What is a comet?

300

This is where the Sun's source of energy comes from.

What is nuclear fusion in the Sun's core?

300

Two words that describe the inner planets?

What are small and rocky?

300

Large bodies that revolve around the Sun or another star.

What are planets?

400

The feeling you would get if you were to fall at the same time as your surroundings were falling.

What is weightlessness?

400

Relatively small, rocky objects that orbits the Sun. Normally found between Mars and Jupiter.

What are asteroids?

400

What is the name of the star in our Solar System?

What is the Sun?

400

Name the outer planets.

What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto?

400

This stage of a star is very bright and cool.

What is a Red Giant?

500

This is what keeps the planets in their orbits around the Sun.

What is gravitational attraction?

500

A chunk of matter that enters Earth's atmosphere and is heated by friction with the air. Also known as shooting stars.

What are meteors?

500

The last stage when a star dies and it loses all of its heat.

What is a black dwarf?

500

Besides Pluto, what do the outer planets have in common?

What are size (huge) and made up of gases?

500

The Sun and all the bodies that travel around it including 9 planets, their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteors.

What is the Solar System?

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