Inner Planets
Planet is closest to the sun
What is Mercury?
Planet with beautiful rings of rock, dust, and ice.
What is Saturn?
The name of our galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
The reason things fall down
What is gravity?
The government organization that studies space and builds rockets.
What is NASA?
The Red Planet
What is Mars?
Largest Planet in our Solar System.
What is Jupiter?
A celestial orb that is a burning mass of incandescent gas
The person who said two similarly shaped, but different sized, objects will fall at the same rate.
Who is Galileo?
A part of the rocket that helps it cut through the atmosphere and have less air resistance
What is a rocket nose?
Hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
Planet with the Big Red Spot
What is Jupiter
Where metals turn to gas.
What is the sun?
The reason a feather falls slower than a hammer on Earth.
What is air resistance?
Another name for propellant
What is fuel?
Planet with a core the same temperature as the surface of the sun
What is Earth?
Planet with the longest orbit in the solar system
What is Neptune?
The scientific name for shooting stars.
What are meteors/meteoroids?
The force that attracts two bodies with mass.
What is gravity?
The force that must be stronger than gravity to get a rocket off the ground.
What is thrust?
Two planets closest to Earth
What are Venus and Mars?
Planet that spins differently from other planets
What is Uranus?
Where anything that enters becomes a spaghetti version of itself.
The speed of things as they are falling.
What is "faster and faster" or accelerating?
Newton's Third Law of Motion that helps us understand how rockets are launched.
What is "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."