Planets
Planets 2
Galaxies
Stars
Flying things!
100
The name of the planets in order.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
100
All planets rotate on an...
What is an axis?
100
The name of the galaxy WE are in.
What is the milky way?
100
The only star in our solar system.
What is the sun?
100
This is found between the inner and outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
200
The nickname for the inner planets.
What are the rocky planets?
200
The nickname for the outer planets.
What are the gas giants?
200
The shape of an elliptical galaxy.
What is round or circular?
200
The reason really big stars appear so little to us.
What is because they are so far away?
200
This object is a bright light following a space rock that has entered our atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
300
Where you would find the asteroid belt.
What is between Mars and Jupiter.
300
The planets that have more moons.
(Inner or outer)
What are the outer planets?
300
The name of a galaxy that does not have a typical shape.
What is an irregular galaxy?
300
Which of these is not in our solar system?
Venus, sun, moon, or the star Canopus
What is Canopus?
300
This object is a meteoroid that reaches the surface of Earth.
What is a meteorite?
400
The planet that would likely have a mass more than 300 times greater than the mass of Earth?
Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, or Venus
What is Jupiter?
400
The difference between the sun (our star) and other stars that makes it important to Earth (us).
The sun is the closest star to us.
400
The difference between a barred spiral galaxy and a normal spiral galaxy.
What is the shape of the center.
Barred spiral is bar-shaped in the middle. Normal spiral is round.
400
BONUS!
If you get this right, you can choose TWO tables to pie!
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all share this same characteristic as Jupiter.
What is a gassy atmosphere?
or What is very large?
400
These would likely be found between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
500
A planet that would have a large solid core.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars (any of the ROCKY planets)
500
The planet that has a large dark spot. Different than the planet with a red spot.
What is Neptune?
500
The three types of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
500
The thing that determines the color of a star.
What is the temperature of a star?
500
Where would you find a meteroid?
What is in space? (not in our atmosphere)