Our Planet Earth
The bubble around the Earth is called ____
What is the atmosphere?
The Moon revolves around the ____
What is the Earth?
This planet orbits on its side
What is Uranus? (also rotates in an opposite direction to the other planets in our solar system)
Celestial Body that orbits around the sun
What is a planet?
True or False? The Milky Way has its own Black hole.
What is True! The milky way has a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* located at the centre of the galaxy, in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation.
This is the name of Earth's path around the Sun.
What is its Orbit?
True or False? The Moon produces its own light.
What is false. The Moon reflects the light of other celestial bodies (such as the sun)
Saturn's rings made up of these materials.
What are dust, ice and debris?
Anything that orbits a planet or a star.
What is a satellite?
True or false? Pluto is a planet.
What is false? Unfortunately, Pluto is no longer considered a planet because it only meets 2 of the 3 required criteria to be considered a planet.
1). It must have enough gravity to be round (check! pluto is indeed round)
2). It must orbit a star (check! it orbits our sun)
3). It must clear its orbit of other large objects (nope, Pluto does not have enough gravity to push larger objects out of its neighbourhood)
This is the force keeping our feet on the ground.
What is gravity
True or false? The Moon has no atmosphere
True
This planet is nicknamed "the Red Planet"
What is Mars?
A planet's natural satellite.
What is a moon
Name at least 2 dwarf planets in our solar system.
What are Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, Eris, Pluto?
The Earth's orbit around the sun causes ___
What is our seasons
It takes the moon this long to make a complete trip around the Earth.
What is about a month (27 days)
This planet is Earth's "sister planet."
What is Venus? (this is because they have a very similar size, mass and rocky internal structure)
A piece of an asteroid or comet that enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
True or false? There is no sound in space?
What is true? Because sound is a longitudinal wave, it needs a medium to travel, and space is a vacuum, which has no form of gas, liquid or solid for the sound to travel through.
It takes the Earth this long to rotate once.
What is 24 hours or one day?
The moon orbits the Earth in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
This blue planet is named for the Roman God of the seas.
What is Neptune?
This is an extremely powerful vacuum where gravity is SO strong that nothing can escape it; not even light.
What is a Black Hole?
True or false? The Milky Way is the only galaxy visible from Earth.
What is false? In addition to the Milky Way, the Andromeda, Triangulum, Large and Small Megellanic Cloud Galaxies are all visible from Earth in different regions at different times.