Earth and Space Systems
Size and Distance of Planet
Gravity-Hold Me Down!
Revolution and Rotation
All Mixed Up!
100
The Great Red Spot is located on this planet
What is Jupiter?
100

This planet is found .39 AU. You can also find me in a thermometer.

What is Mercury?

100

I am the force that holds the planets in orbit around the sun. May the force be with YOU!

What is Gravity?

100
This measurement of time represents one complete revolution of Earth.
What is a year?
100

This is the NASA program that sent the only humans to the Moon

What is Apollo?

200
The sun, moon, planets, asteroids, and comets all make up our -
What is the Solar System?
200
I use to be number nine, now they call me a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
200

The tendency of a moving object to continue in a straight line. An object in motion stays in motion.

What is inertia

200

Earth spinning on its axis is called..

What is a rotation?

200

This part of the phase of the moon means the moon is getting bigger in the night's sky.

What is Waxing?

300

This is the name of our spiraling galaxy. 

What is the Milky Way?

300

This planet has rings made of chunks of ice and rock. I am the 7th planet.

What is Uranus?

300

DAILY DOUBLE 


We are two factors that work to keep the planets in orbit.

What is gravity and inertia?

300

The number of days it takes for the moon to revolve around Earth.

What is 27.5 days?

300

I'm blue and green and a little brown. I am a small planet with life all around. They call me the 3rd rock from the sun.

What is Earth?

400

DAILY DOUBLE       

A natural satellite that orbits all planets except Mercury and Venus is called a -

What is a moon?

400
The second largest planet in the solar system is called-
What is Saturn?
400

This planet has 38% of Earth's gravity. Your muscles might get a little rusty if you don't work out.

What is Mars?

400

`This is the ancient belief that the sun, moon, and the rest of the universe revolves around the Earth.

What is Geocentrism?

400

This is the exact amount of the moon that is always lit up.

What is Half?

500

Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars are...

What are the Inner planets?

500

Name the planets in order from the sun.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

500

We are the main cause of tides on Earth.

What is the gravitational pull of the moon?

500

I was an Italian scientist, who first used the telescope to study the sky. You might say I'm into Jupiter's moons.

What is Galileo?

500

Named for the Roman god of the Sea. Look past Saturn and Uranus for me. I am the planet known as-

What is Neptune?

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