Solar System
Movement
Moon
Scientists
Grab Bag
100
The sixth planet from the sun.
What is Saturn
100
When an object turns on an axis.
What is rotation
100
This is how many days have passed between a new moon and a full moon
What is 14 days.
100
Believed in a sun-centered solar system model.
Who was Copernicus
100
What are the points called that are the axis for the Earth's rotation?
What North Pole and South Pole/
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 crescent.
200
These scientists believed the Earth was the center of the solar system
Who were Ptolomy and Aristotle
200
The reason probes can not land on the surface of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranas.
What is they are made up of gas.
300
A system of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other objects that revolve around a star.
What is a solar system
300
What causes the phases of the moon?
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
This is what the following sentence helps you remember. My very educated mother just served us nachos.
What is the order of the planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
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
How many days does it take for the moon to go from New Moon to Full Moon?
What is 14 days.
400
The instrument that changed scientists ideas from earth-centered to sun-centered.
What is a telescope.
400
The planets are divided into these two categories that describe what they are made up of.
What are terrestrial and gas giants.
500
The coldest planet
What is Neptune
500
This occurs about every month
What is the moon's revolution or orbit around the earth; or a complete moon phase cycle.
500
Name two planets other than Earth that have moons orbiting them.
What are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
500
Aristotle proposed this theory of the solar system
What is Earth-centered
500
When the northern hemisphere is closest to the sun it is what season there?
What is summer
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