Objects in Space

Our World

100

Meteors that have fallen to Earth are called ______________________.

What is a meteorite?

200

What protects Earth from a great number of significant impacts from meteors?

What is the atmosphere?

300

What is a natural satellite?

What is a moon?

400

What is the name given for the Galaxy our Solar System resides in?

What is Milky Way?

500

What is the imaginary line that goes through both poles of the planet?

What is Axis

Our System

100

The Sun is an example of a _______________.

What is a star?

200

What is the angle of Earth's tilt? 

What is 23.5 degrees?

300

The region of space between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found is called the _____________________.

What is the asteroid belt?

400

What is the definition of Solar System?

What is a Star and all the objects that orbit it?

500

Which planet has over 60 moons?

What is Jupiter?

Our System 2.0

100

Objects in the solar system stay in orbit (are kept nearby) because of the Sun’s _________________.

What is gravity?

200

A ____________ is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that: 1. is big enough to be rounded by its own gravity; 2. is not big enough to cause thermonuclear fusion; and 3. has cleared its neighboring region of significantly large objects.

What is a planet?

300

How many days are in between each moon phase?

What is 3-4 days?

400

A ___________ occurs when the Earth is in between the Sun and the Moon.

What is a Lunar Eclipse?

500

Name one reason that the seasons change.

The Earth is tilted on its axis.

And Beyond

100

How does the moon affect Earth?

It affects the rising and falling of the tides.

200

A small object made of dust and ice that revolves around the sun is called a _______________.

What is a comet?

300

When you describe the changes of the moon what term do you use?

What is a phase?

400

How long does it take Earth to rotate around its axis?

What is a 1 day?

500

What moon phase comes TWO weeks after a full moon?

What is a new moon?

Random

100

What do we call a person who studies the Solar System?

What is astronomer?

200

What is the Earth's path called, as it moves around the sun?

What is orbit?

300

How many different phases of the moon are there?

What is eight?

400

400 years ago this instrument was invented to observe object in space with more detail.

What is telescope?

500

This is the star closest to the Earth

What is sun?