Planets
The sun, planets, the planet’s moon and other smaller bodies that orbit the sun form.
What is the solar system?
The moon is a natural type of this that revolves around a bigger object.
What is a satellite?
A group of asteroids located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt.
Plant suitable for life
What is Earth
This is the largest planet in the solar system
What is Jupiter?
The study of God’s creation beyond our atmosphere
What is Astronomy?
The moon’s dark patches are known as.
What are maria?
A rocky or metallic object that gets too close to the atmosphere and lands on the earth’s surface.
What are Meteorite
Planet discovered mathematically
Neptune
What is Mars
Largest known mountain in the solar system.
What is Olympus Mons
Temperature is the primary factor that determines.
What the brightness of a star?
The astronomer correctly calculated the return of a comet seen in 1682..
Who Edmond Halley
First new planet discovered
Uranus
They keep Saturn's rings in place
What are Saturn's shepherd moons
Jupiter's moon that is the most volcanically active body.
What is Io
The largest moon in the solar system.
What is Ganymede
The astronomer that discovered that planets do not travel in circles.
Johannes Kepler
The symmetrical oval shape that a planet's orbit has
ellipse
What gives Uranus its unusual day and night cycle?
What is axial tilt.
The visible part of the sun.
What is the photosphere
The Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The phenomenon that occurs when the full moon phases through the earth's shadow
What is a lunar eclipse