Rocky Planets
Miscellaneous
Vocabulary
The types of spheres
True or False
100

This planet is the closest planet to the sun. 

What is Mercury?

100

What tool can you use to make the craters on the moon appear larger?

What is a telescope?

100

A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.


What is a scientist?

100

Made up of a mixture of gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen, but also small amounts of other gases that include crabon dioxide.

What is atmosphere?

100

All the planets are the same size?

What is False?

200

What planet is the second planet from the sun?

What is Venus?

200

What is needed to make a planet habitable?

What is food and water?

200

Having the conditions necessary to support life

what is habitable?

200

All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.

What is the Hydrosphere?

200

All planets are considered a rocky planet. 

What is false?

300

What rocky planet is the smallest?

What is Mercury?

300

Where is the best place to look for life beyond Earth?

What is rocky planets?

300

A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.

What is a system?

300

All the living things on a planet.

What is the biosphere?

300

There are ways to search for life on other planets?

What is True?

400

This planet is Earth's sister planet. It is the fourth planet from the sun and appears red.

What is Mars?

400

This planet is the only planet that we know of that has living organisms

What is Earth?

400

Someone who studies how other planets (and moons and asteroids and comets and whatever else is floating out there) form and evolve over time.

What is planetary geologist?

400

 The solid part of a rocky planet.

What is the geosphere?

400

 Earth is the only planet with a biosphere

what is true?

500

What are the two things that Earth, Mercury, Venus and mars have in common?

What is close to the sun and all are rocky planets?

500

Name the planets in order from the sun. 

what is Mercury, Venus, earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

500

Any planet with a solid surface, such as Earth or Mars

What is a rocky planet?

500

Name the different types of spheres in the system.

Geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere

500

a full NASA suit costs $12 million dollars. 

What is true?

(However, the space suits that NASA uses were built in 1974.  If these were priced by today's pricing, they would cost an estimated 150 million dollars)

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