Planets

Space Exploration

Earth and Space

Terminology

Fun Facts

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The planet known as the "red planet"

What is Mars?

100

The first person to step on the moon

Who is Neil Armstrong 

100

The invisible line that separates the Northen Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere

What is the Equator 

100

The Sun and everything that orbits it, including the planets, moons, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids etc.

What is the Solar System

100

The dwarf planet once considered the ninth planet.

What is Pluto?

200

The Planet with Rings made mostly of Ice and Rock

What is Saturn?

200

The Space Agency of the United States

What is NASA?

200

This force keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun

What is gravity?

200

An object that orbits another one, such as the moon orbiting Earth. Can be artificial or natural.

What is a Satellite?

200

When the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow on Earth and blocking the Suns light

What is a Solar Eclipse

300

The Largest Planet in the Solar System

What is Jupiter?

300

The American Spacecraft that first successfully landed humans on the moon 

What is Apollo 11?

300

The Earth takes this long to orbit the Sun once.

What is a year?

300

A repeating path that an object in space takes around another one

What is an Orbit?

300

Any human made object in orbit that is no longer useful, ranging from rocket stages to tiny paint flecks.

What is Space Junk

400

The hottest Planet in the Solar System 

What is Venus

400

The person who discovered the sun had sunspots, Jupiter's moons, stars of the universe and many more

Who is Galileo Galilei

400

The phase of a Moon when it appears illuminated from Earth's perspective occurring when the Earth is positioned between the Sun and Moon

What is a full moon?

400

Spheres of hot gas, held together by their own gravity

What are Stars?

400

The ancient theory that places Earth at the center of the universe, with the other planets orbiting the Earth

What is the Geocentric model?

500

The Planet that rotates on it's side

What is Jupiter?

500

The telescope that gave us deep and clear images of Space and Galaxies

What is the Hubble Telescope?

500

The Gravitational pull of the moon and the sun, which creates large amounts of water on opposite sides of the earth

What are tides?

500

The cycles on planets caused by the axial tilt and orbit around a star

What are Seasons?

500

The ancient theory that places the Sun at the center of the solar system with the planets revolving around the Sun

What is the Heliocentric Model?

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