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100

What two gases make up the sun?

What is helium and hydrogen

100

Which planet is furthest from the sun?

What is Neptune
100

What is a chunk of rock before it enters the earth's atmosphere?

What is a meteor

100

Who created the geocentric theory

Who is Ptolemy

100

Which is the north star?

What is Polaris

200

What is the visible layer of the sun?

What is the Photosphere

200

Which planet's axis is tilted on its side?

What is Uranus

200

What is a chunk of rock that enters the earth's atmosphere?

What are Meteorites

200

Who created the Law of Universal Gravitation

Who is Isaac Newton

200

The hottest stars are what color

What is blue?

300

What is the upper part of the sun's atmosphere?

What is the Corona

300

What nickname given to the four outer planets refers to what they're mostly made of?

Gas giants

300

Where is the asteroid belt?

What is Between Mars and Jupiter

300

Who created the Heliocentric theory

Who is Copernicus

300

What does the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram measure

What is size and temperature

400

What is the lower part of the sun's atmosphere?

What is the chromosphere

400

Which planet has the fastest rotation?

What is Jupiter

400

What is a ball of dust and ice that gives off a tail as it orbits the sun?

What is a Comet

400

Who discovered elliptical orbits, laws of planetary motion

Who is Kepler
400

What is Leo the Lion major star

What is Regulus

500

Which feature of the photosphere are tiny "bubbles" caused by convection cells?

What are granules

500

The hottest planet, thick atmosphere, brightest planet

What is Venus

500

True or False: comets have short orbits, lasting no more than thirty years

False

500

Who first believed the earth was the center of the universe

Who is Artistotle

500

What are Orions three stars

Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, and Rigel

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