Earth and Space Systems
Size and Distance of Planet
Gravity-Hold Me Down!
Revolution and Rotation
All Mixed Up!Planet Riddles
100
The Great Red Spot is located on this planet
What is Jupiter?
100
This planet is found closest to the sun. 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
I the planet that everyone calls "Red". My soil is rust-colored instead. Look up and you may spot me in the sky.
What is Mars?
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
With over 63 moon, you might say I have a lot. Look with a telescope to see my big, red spot.
What is Jupiter?
300
I am also called the "evening star", catch me if you can!
What is Venus?
300
This planet has hundreds of rings made of chunks of ice and rock. I am the 7th planet.
What is Uranus?
300
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 27.3 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
A natural satellite that orbits all planets except Mercury and Venus is called the -
What is the moon?
400
The second largest planet in the solar system is called-
What is Saturn?
400
This force moves rocks and other materials downhill.
What is gravity?
400
This scientist believed that Earth was at the center of the solar system. He was a Greek thinker who said the other planets and the sun all traveled around the Earth in 330B.C.
Who is Aristotle?
400
A gas planet that's off in the distance, only recently they found my rings in existence. I spin sideways.
What is Uranus?
500
Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars
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. I believed that Earth traveled around the Sun. in 1609.
What is Galileo?
500
Name 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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