The Solar System
This is the term for a system that includes at least one star, planets, their moons, asteroids, comets, and other space debris.
What is the solar system?
This is the term for a collection of stars and their solar systems, dust, and gas.
Earth spins on this as it orbits the sun.
What is an axis?
These are what we call the changes in the moon shape.
What are moon phases?
Earth is this 3D shape.
What is a sphere?
This is the oval-shaped path an object follows as it revolves around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
This is the name of the galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
Earth revolves around this.
What is the sun?
There are this number of phrases of the moon.
What are 8?
This it the term for the force that pulls objects towards Earth's center.
What is gravity?
These are the first 4 planets of our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
This is the term for all of the existing matter and energy in space.
What is the universe?
What is rises in the east and sets in the west?
This is the term for an event that occurs when the moon passes directly behind the Earth and into its shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The tides are caused by the interaction between the Earth and this.
What is the moon?
These are the last 4 planets in our solar system.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? (But no longer Pluto *cry*)
Name at least two types of tech equipment that have helped humans explore space.
What are rovers, probes, satellites, and telescopes?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
When it is winter in the United States, it is this season in Australia.
What is summer?
It is during this type of eclipse that you should wear protective glasses.
What is a solar eclipse?
What is "come down"?
These are other objects found in space that range in size. *Hint there are 3 of them!
What are asteroids, meteors, and comets?
This is the term for a place in space where human can live for days, weeks, and even months.
What is a space station?
It may seem like someone is following you, but it is really just this: something that changes throughout the day depending on the position of the sun.
What is a shadow?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is the term for the 12 constellations we assign to each month.
What are astrological signs or zodiacs?
This is the name of a film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in space.
What is Gravity?