The Moon
Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets
Solar System
Planetary Features
Potpourri
100

This is when the moon is entirely filled with light.

What is the full moon?

100

Space rocks must be smaller than this to be considered meteors.

What is 10 meters?

100

This is the largest planet of the solar system.

What is Jupiter?

100

This determines the day/night cycle of a planet.

What is rotation/spin period?

100

This planet has more moons than any other planet in the solar system.

What is Saturn?

200

When the light is on the left side of the moon, it is called this.

What is waning?

200

This area of the solar system is where you would expect to find asteroids.

What is the Asteroid Belt?

200

These are the two ice giants of the solar system.

What are Uranus and Neptune?

200

This can also be called a planet's orbital period.

What is revolution?

200

It rains this on Uranus and Neptune.

What is diamonds?

300

This planet has the largest moon in relation to its planet's size in the entire solar system.

What is Earth?

300

This is otherwise referred to as a "dirty snowball".

What is a comet?

300

This planet is sometimes called Earth's twin or Earth's sister.

What is Venus?

300

For Earth, this is third, and for Jupiter it is fifth.

What is position?

300

This planet has water locked underground at its polar caps, even though it has no water on its surface.

What is Mars?

400

This is how many days it takes for the moon to go through a full lunar cycle.

What is 29.5 days?

400

During the last mass extinction event, this struck the Earth and killed all the dinosaurs.

What is a comet or asteroid?

400

This planet's gravitational pull may be responsible for the solar system not having a ninth planet where the asteroid belt currently sits.

What is Jupiter?

400

For most planets in the solar system, this measure at less than 30 degrees.

What is tilt?

400

When the Earth casts a shadow on the moon, this celestial phenomenon occurs.

What is a lunar eclipse?

500

We only see one side of the moon because of this quality of the moon.

What is tidally locked?

500

These are the two places comets can be found in the solar system.

What is the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud?

500

This is the order of the planets in the solar system from smallest to largest.

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

500

This is the area of a star system where liquid water can be found and, therefore, life is possible.

What is the habitable zone/Goldilocks zone?

500

Mars has almost none of this element anywhere on the planet, so if we terraformed it we'd have to import it from one of Saturn's moons or maybe Venus.

What is nitrogen?

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