The Big Picture
This consists of the Sun and its family of eight planets.
What is the solar system?
This is the planet closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
These chunks of rocks and metal orbit the Sun between the planets.
What are asteroids?
Which number of planet is the Earth, in distance from the Sun?
What is the third?
Once considered a planet, scientists now call this a "dwarf planet".
What is Pluto?
This is the centre of our solar system.
Fifth from the sun, this is the largest planet. It is best known for its beautiful colours and its Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
These have bright heads and long, shining tails. They shine partly because of light absorbed from the Sun, and partly because of the reflected sunlight.
What are comets?
What covers 70% of Earth?
What is Earth's ocean?
Once a meteoroid hits the Earth's atmosphere, it's called this.
What is a meteor?
This is the galaxy in which we live.
What is the Milky Way?
Sixth from the sun, this planet is best known for its beautiful system of ring that encircle it.
What is Saturn?
This is a body that does not give off light of its own, instead reflecting the light of the Sun.
What is a moon?
This is how long it takes the moon to orbit the Earth, giving us our day and night cycles.
What is 24 hours?
What 2 groups can we divide our Solar System's planets into?
What is terrestrial and gaseous?
Combined, this is how the planets stay in perfect orbit.
What is the Sun's gravitational pull and the planet's pull away from this pull?
This planet is the eighth from the Sun and can only be seen through a telescope. Little is known about this distant planet.
What is Neptune?
These objects produce and give off their own heat and light.
What are stars?
This is how long it takes Earth to orbit the Sun, giving us our cycle of seasons.
What is 365 day?
This is the most popular comet to date, last seen in 1986.
What is Halley's Comet?
This is the study of outer space.
What is astronomy?
Called the morning or evening star, this planet appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise.
What is Venus?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that seem (to some people) to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
What is the zone called, in which Earth resides in?
The Goldilocks Zone?
What is Ceres, Eris, Makemake, or Haumea?