Solar System
Movement
Moon
Sun
Grab Bag
100
The sixth planet from the sun.
What is Saturn
100
When an object turns on an axis.
What is rotation
100
Name 2 planets other than Earth who have moons revolving around them.
What are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
100
Despite what Aristotle and Ptolemy believed, this is actually the center of the solar system.
What is the sun?
100
What 3 things cause the most changes to the earth's surface?
What is wind, water, and ice. (Weathering, erosion)
200
This is the largest planet
What is Jupiter
200
This is how long it takes for the Earth to make one revolution around the Sun.
What is 365 days
200
This moon phase comes right after the third quarter.
What is waning gibbous.
200
This protects the Earth from the harmful radiation of the sun.
What is the atmosphere?
200
This is the name given to pieces of rock that get pulled in by Earth's gravity and burned up in the atmosphere.
What is a meteorite?
300
A system of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other objects that revolve around a star.
What is a solar system
300
This causes the phases of the moon.
What is moon's rotation around the earth
300
This is how often we see a new moon.
What is every 28 days
300
This keeps the Earth on its orbit
What is the sun's gravity
300
When the northern hemisphere leans toward the sun, this is the season.
What is summer?
400
What is the closest star to Earth?
What is the sun
400
This is the direction that all of the planets move around the Sun.
What is counter-clockwise
400
These 2 objects in the sky look like they are the same size to us, even though they are not.
What is the Sun and Moon
400
The reason the sun "travels" across the sky
What is Earth's rotation on its axis.
400
The planets are divided into these two categories that describe what they are made up of.
What are terrestrial and gas giants.
500
This planet is most like the Earth in size, but its atmosphere is full of CO2.
What is Venus
500
This planet has the slowest rotation of any planet. In fact its day is longer than its year.
What is Venus?
500
This is how many days have passed between a new moon and a full moon.
What is 14 days?
500
Aristotle and early scientist proposed this theory of the solar system.
What is the Earth-centered model?
500
Andrew wants to have a campout when there will be the most light at night. If the campout is schedule for 1 week away, this is the current moon phase.
What is 1st quarter?
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