Planets
$100 – The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
$100 – This planet has the strongest gravity.
What is Jupiter?
$100 – A ball of hot gas, like the Sun.
What is a star?
$100 – A chart using bars.
What is a bar graph?
$100 – The only planet known to support life.
What is Earth?
$200 – The planet is closest to the Sun
What is Mercury?
$200 – Where gravity pulls objects toward.
What is the center of mass?
$200 – The path one object takes around another.
What is orbit?
$200- What scientists use to collect data
What is, evidence and observations?
$200- the term given to any object orbiting a larger object
What is a satellite?
$300 – The planet with visible rings.
What is Saturn?
$300 – The man who formulated the law of universal gravitation.
What is Isaac Newton?
$300 – A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations.
What is a theory?
$300 – The average value in a data set.
What is the mean?
$400- The main measurement used in space.
What is a light year?
$400 – The planet known as Earth’s sister.
What is Venus?
$400- This causes the gravitational pull to decrease.
What is, when the mass decreases or the distance increases?
$400 – Term for matter being tightly packed.
What is density?
$400- The main tool scientists use collect images and data in space.
What is a telescope?
$400 – A group of stars forming together due to gravity.
What is a star cluster?
$500- The correct order of the solar system including the asteroid belt.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
$500- Mercury orbits the fastest because...
What is, because it is the closest to the sun and therefore has more gravitational pull.
$500 – The gas layer around a planet.
What is atmosphere?
$500 – The difference between the highest and lowest values.
What is the range?
$500 – What does NASA stand for?
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?