What's in it?
Our Inner Planets
Our Outer Planets
Asteroid & Comets
Meteors
100
This is the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
100
This planet has life.
What is the Earth?
100
Saturn is best known for this.
What is it's large rings?
100
These materials make up a comet.
What is gas, dust, and ice?
100
Meteors are made up of these materials.
What is rock and iron?
200
This is the number of stars in our solar system.
What is one. Our sun!!
200
Mercury is best known for this reason.
What is it's closest to the sun.
200
Uranus is unique (but other than it's goofy name) because it has a strange what?
What is it is tilted on its side?
200
This is why we can see the tail of a comet.
What is because when it nears the sun, the ice melts and leaves a trail?
200
This is what a meteor is called when it hits the Earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
300
This is the number of planets in our solar system.
What is eight?
300
This planet has red dust, giving it a red color.
What is Mars?
300
This is the largest, in size, of all the planets.
What is Jupiter?
300
Asteroids orbit the sun between these two planets.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
300
This is what a meteor is called when it is in space.
What is meteoroid?
400
True or False. Asteroid, comets, and meteors are not considered to be art of our solar system.
What is false. Of course they are!!
400
this planet is known as Earth's twin sister.
What is Venus?
400
This planet has a large red spot that scientist believe are wind storms.
What is Jupiter?
400
Describe the size of an asteroid.
What is they can be any size, from tiny dust to large as a huge building, and beyond?
400
A meteorite is actually a shooting star, where a piece of star fell to Earth.
What is false?
500
Recite the sentence for remembering the planets in order from the sun out.
What is My Very Educated Mother Just Served us Nuggets
500
This distinguishes the inner planets from the outer planets; this makes them different.
What is the inner planets are solid?
500
This planet has thick icy clouds, that give it a blue color.
What is Neptune?
500
This is the name of the comet that we will be able to see with the naked eye in the year you are age 60+.
What is Halley's Comet?
500
This could happen if a very large meteorite hit the Earth, possibly like in the dinosaur era.
What is cause a catastrophe - volcanoes, ice age, kill off plants and animals?
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