Inner Solar System Planets
This planet has the fastest trip around the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the biggest planet in the solar system, outer or inner.
What is Jupiter?
When the moon pulls on the Earth's waters, this happens, both on the side of the earth that faces the moon, and the side on the exact other end, due to gravity.
What is high tide?
The solar system formed from one of these, when it started spinning rapidly.
What is a nebula?
This is Mr. Hunt's first name.
What is "Daniel?"
This planet would be impossible to live on- constant storms, intense pressure, heat, volcanoes- don't buy a timeshare here!
What is Venus?
This planet has a crazy axis tilt, and its small rings spin around it like a ferris wheel.
What is Uranus?
The moon's gravitational pull on the Earth does this to the Earth's spinning speed.
What is slows it?
The acronym "AU" measures the earth's distance from the sun, and it stands for this.
What is "astronomical unit?"
Mr. Mullins, Mr. Docanto, Ms. Stevenson, and many other Nativity staff members attended this university.
What is Boston College?
This is the name for a planetoid that flies past the inner solar system.
What is an asteroid?
When comets from the outer solar system, they release gas, and form this.
What is a comet's tail?
When the moon gets between the Earth and the sun so that the sun looks entirely covered, it is called this type of eclipse.
What is a total solar eclipse?
This is Newton's first law of motion.
What is "an object at rest tends to stay at rest?"
This is the name of the last class to graduate from Nativity.
What is Lemaitre?
This planet is the only one in the inner solar system that is more than one AU from the sun.
What is Mars?
Methane gas gives this planet its deep blue color.
What is Neptune or Uranus?
This phase of the moon looks like there is no moon in the sky at all.
What is a new moon?
This is the force that slows down objects with great mass.
What is inertia?
Mr. Moynihan went to this Milwaukee, WI university for college, and Mr. Hunt went there for grad school.
This is the only planet in the inner solar system with more than one moon.
What is Mars?
This planet has two storms raging at each of its poles; much like Jupiter's big red spot, but in hexagons on its north and south ends.
What is Saturn?
Without the moon, this would be the brightest celestial object in the night sky.
What is Venus?
The first multinational space program, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, was between which two countries?
What are Russia and America?
This is Mr. Donnelly's baby's first name.
What is "Jameson?"