The Planets
Scale Questions
Space Tools and Technologies
Tides
Mixed Bag
100
These planets are rocky
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
Name the shape of a planet's orbit around the sun.
ellipse
100
This space tool allows you to see far away objects through a closer lens on Earth.
What is a ground telescope?
100
What is the main cause of Earth's tides?
The moon's gravitational pull
100
If Sydney, Australia is located in the Southern Hemisphere and it is experiencing winter, what season is Lexington, SC having in the Northern Hemisphere?
Summer
200
These planets have rings.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
200
A student made a model of how the planets orbit the sun. She used a tennis ball to represent the sun. She used ping-pong balls to represent each planet and painted each one a different color. Then, she placed all the ping-pong balls equal distances apart in a line extending out from the sun.
What are two limitations of the student's model? (Limitations are things about the model that limit its accuracy.)
She used the same size balls to represent the planets.
The planets are not the correct distances from the sun
200
This space tool orbits around planets and takes pictures of phenomena like weather patterns.
What is a satellite?
200
About how often do the tides change? (from high tide to low tide?)
About every six hours
200
What wave behavior is responsible for producing the moon's light?
Reflection
300
These planets have no moons.
What are Mercury and Venus?
300
Place the words in order from smallest to greatest.
Universe, Solar System, Galaxy
Solar system, Galaxy, Universe
300
This space tool travels beyond earth and gathers information about other planets.
What is a probe?
300
Which two numbers indicate where the moon would be for neap tides?
3 and 7
300
What motions(two) are responsible for Earth's seasons?
Revolution
400
Pluto is not considered a planet because it is missing this criteria (this requirement)
What is it does not have a cleared path?
400
Describe how the distances between the orbits of the inner planets (1st four from the sun) compare to the distances between the orbits of the outer planets (four farthest from the sun)
The distances between orbits of the outer planets are much larger.
400
The hubble telescope is this type of space tool(s).
What is a satellite or space telescope?
400
Based on the above diagram, how would the tides be affected on Earth?
High tides are lower; low tides are higher than normal.
400
What portion of an eclipse's shadow must you be in to see a total solar eclipse?
umbra
500
This planet spins on its side - possibly got hit by an asteroid in its early formation.
What is Uranus?
500
What unit is used to measure really large distances in space?
Light Years
500
New Horizon is a space probe that traveled beyond this object to look for moon activity.
What is Pluto?
500
How often do Spring and Neap tides occur?
Once every week
500
These dark shadows were once thought to be oceans on the moon. Later, it was discovered that they are old lava flows.
Maria