It's funny how some distance Makes everything seem small
Let it Go, Let it Go
100
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
What planets did the ancient Greeks know about?
100
This planet shows no evidence of volcanic activity.
What is Mercury?
100
This is the largest and most massive planet.
What is Jupiter?
100
Between Mars and Jupiter.
Where is the asteroid belt located?
100
The sun’s energy comes from this (hydrogen atoms join together to form helium).
What is nuclear fusion?
200
A geocentric model
What is Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars.
200
This planet is often referred to as "Earth's twin."
What is Venus
200
This keeps the giant planets’ gases from escaping, so they have thick atmospheres.
What is gravity?
200
This is the size of a comet.
What is a mountain?
200
This moon of Jupiter might sustain life.
What is Europa?
300
He used a telescope to discover four moons revolving around Jupiter.
Who is Galileo?
300
This inner planet has evidence that liquid water used to flow on its surface.
What is Mars?
300
This was discovered as a result of a mathematical prediction. Astronomers noted that Uranus was not quite following the orbit predicted for it.
What is Neptune?
300
These are found in one of two distant regions of the solar system: the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud
What are comets?
300
The sun produces an enormous amount of energy here
What is the core?
400
He was able to work out the arrangement of the known planets and how they move around the sun.
Who is Copernicus?
400
These are the three layers of the Earth.
What is Crust, Mantle, Core
400
These are made of chunks of ice and rock, each traveling in its own orbit.
What are the rings of Saturn?
400
These form when asteroids collide in space. Others form when a comet breaks up and creates a cloud of dust that continues to move through the solar system.
What are meteroids?
400
This model of the solar system puts the sun at the center.
What is a heliocentric model?
500
He discovered that the planets orbit in ellipses?
Who is Kepler?
500
All of the inner planets have these in common. (need at least two things that are NOT location)
What are small and dense and have rocky surfaces.
500
These two outer planets are extremely similar.
What are Neptune and Uranus?
500
This is usually a very long, narrow ellipse.
What is the orbit of a comet?
500
This is the order of the planets from the Kupier belt in.
What is Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury?