The Sun
The number of planets that orbit our sun.
What is eight?
The first planet from the sun.
What is Mercury?
A small body of ice, rock, and cosmic dust that gives off dust in the form of a tail.
What are comets?
Earth's major source of heat and light comes from this
What is the sun?
The number of ALL of the stars in our entire solar system.
What is one?
The sun's outermost layer, which makes up the main part of the sun's atmosphere, seen during a total eclipse.
What is the corona?
One of the four inner planets (terrestrial/rocky).
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars?
A small, rocky object that orbits the sun, mainly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
The position Earth is from the Sun.
What is 3rd?
The group of planets with more rings and moons.
What are the outer planets?
The coolest areas on the sun viewed as dark patches.
What are sunspots?
One of the four outer planets (Gas Giants).
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune?
Earth's natural satellite is called this.
What is 'the moon'?
The phase of matter that water must exist to sustain life as we know it.
What is liquid?
This separates the inner planets from the outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
This keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
The only planet to rotate on its side.
What is Uranus?
A small, rocky body that travels through Earth's atmosphere and strikes the surface.
What is a meteorite?
The term for the region of space that the Earth is located allowing for liquid water to exist.
What is the goldilocks zone?
The group of planets with slower rotations.
What are the inner planets?
The main two gases that the sun is composed of.
What are hydrogen and helium?
The planet where the largest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, is located.
What is Mars?
These "shooting stars" are small, rocky bodies entering Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
The many layers of gases that surround and protect Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Everything in our Solar System is held together by this.
What is the Sun's Gravitational Pull.