The Moon
Motions of Planets
Structure of Planets
Flying Rocks
Infinity and Beyond
100
The third phase of the moon.
What is a waxing gibbous?
100
The average distance from Earth to the Sun.
What is an astronomical unit?
100
The phases of the moon.
What is lunar phases?
100
Rocky objects, that are smaller than planets, and are found between orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?
100
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus are all part of this category.
What is the outer planets?
200
When a planet orbits around the sun in an oval.
What is an ellipse?
200
An object that revolves around a planet.
What is a satellite?
200
The four planets closest to the sun. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
What is the inner planets?
200
A small,icy body in orbit around the sun.
What is a comet?
200
The average temperature of this planet is -65 degrees, making it the coldest planet.
What is Mars?
300
The time it takes for a planet to do one complete rotataion.
What is the period of rotation?
300
The phases of the moon.
What is the phases of the moon?
300
This planet has no atmosphere.
What is Mercury?
300
Has a solid part called a nucleus an has an atmosphere called a "vena"
What is the structure of a comet?
300
A giant three times the size of Earth.
What is Jupiter's Great Red Spot?
400
This planet takes 165 to do one revolution and 16 hours to do one rotation.
What is Neptune?
400
28 days have gone by after a New Moon
What is full cycle of the moon?
400
This planet is unique because it is covered in liquid water.
What is Earth?
400
Solid, interplanetary particles passing through Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteroid?
400
The rings around Saturn are mainly composed of two things.
What is ice and rock?
500
Planets tend to move faster when they are closer to the moon.
What is Kepler's Second Law?
500
This planet has a revolution that is smaller than its rotation.
What is Venus?
500
This planet has an extremely thick atmosphere.
What is Venus?
500
A comet last seen in 1986, has a 76 year period.
What is Halley's Comet?
500
Jupiters four largest moons are called _________.
What is Galilean?
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