Gaseous Planets
Terrestrial Planets
The Moon
The Sun
Solar System
100
The funny, and rather gaseous, named planet.
What is Uranus?
100
Venus, Earth, Mars and this other planet make up the terrestrial planets in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
100
The moon is earth's only natural one of these.
What is a satellite?
100
The sun is one of at least 200 billion of these in our galaxy.
What is a star?
100
This has been recently been declined planet status.
What is Pluto?
200
The largest of the planets.
What is Jupiter?
200
The hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
200
Impacts from meteoroids, large rocks from space, have been seen as the cause of these lunar features.
What are craters?
200
Except for this, the source for almost all of our energy comes from the sun.
What is nuclear power?
200
There is a "belt" of these between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
300
Gas planets are usually made of these two elements.
What are hydrogen and helium?
300
40,076 kilometers, or the distance you would travel once around along the equator.
What is the circumference of the earth?
300
Because this is not much below 3,700 kilometers per hour, the moon has not fallen towards and eventually crashed into earth.
What is orbital speed?
300
150,000,000 kilometers, or the distance between the sun and earth.
What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
300
Hale-Bopp, an example of this, was seen in 1997 in the night sky without the aid of a telescope.
What is a comet?
400
The discovery of this planet in 1846 nearly doubled the diameter of the solar system.
What is Neptune?
400
Phobos and Deimos are this terrestrial planet's moons.
What is Mars?
400
A collision between earth and an object about the size of Mars gives rise to this popular theory of the moon's formation.
What is the giant impact theory?
400
Yellow-green is the most common color produced in these.
What are auroras, or northern lights?
400
These "shooting stars" can be seen in the night sky about every 10 minutes.
What are meteors?
500
The discovery of this planet in 1846 nearly doubled the diameter of the solar system.
What is Neptune?
500
Terrestrial planets have relatively high these.
What are densities?
500
The moon's gravity has a large effect on these earthly liquid entities.
What are tides?
500
This method of harnessing the sun's energy includes using greenhouses to grow plants during winter in cold climates.
What is passive solar heating?
500
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All teams receive 500 points
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