Sun and Moon
Planets
Earth's Movements and Seasons
Meteoroids, Meteors, Meteorites and Comets
Miscellaneous Astronomy
100
Our Sun is one of these. It is the closest one to us, which is why it looks larger than any of the others we can see in the night sky.
What is a star?
100
This is the number of planets in our Solar System.
What is 8?
100
This is the imaginary line through the center of the Earth which connects the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the axis?
100
This is a large bright object made of dust, small rocks, ice and frozen gases. It is sometimes nicknamed a "dirty snowball."
What is a comet?
100
This is the 4th planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
200
These spots on the Sun are areas on the surface which are cooler than other areas.
What are sunspots?
200
This is a sentence we learned during our astronomy unit which we can use to help us remember the order of the planets.
What is "My very exhausted mother just served us nachos?"
200
This is the term used for the movement of the earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
200
As a comet approaches the Sun, it develops this.
What is a tail?
200
A person who studies the objects in outer space is called this.
What is an astronomer?
300
These are eruptions of plasma that usually occur near sunspots. They look like flames shooting out from the outer edge of the Sun.
What are flares or prominences?
300
The outer planets are also known as these.
What are the gas giants?
300
This is the term for the movement of Earth on its orbit around the Sun.
What is orbit?
300
This is the term for an object in space which is rocky, metallic or icy, and smaller than an asteroid.
What is a meteoroid?
400
This is the term used when the moon is gradually becoming larger.
What is waxing?
400
This planet takes the least amount of time to orbit the Sun.
What is Mercury?
400
This is the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
What is an ellipse?
400
This is the term for a meteoroid which has traveled through the Earth's atmosphere and made it all the way to the ground.
What is a meteorite?
400
This is where most of the asteroids in our solar system are located.
What is the asteroid belt?
500
This is what we call the amount of time it takes the moon to orbit the Earth once.
What is a lunar month?
500
This many planets have moons.
What are 6? (Mercury and Venus do not have moons)
500
When the Earth is tilted toward the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere, that part of the earth is experiencing this season.
What is summer?
500
When a meteorite hits the Earth, it makes this bowl-shaped dent in the ground.
What is a crater?
500
This is another name for the inner planets.
What is terrestrial?
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