Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Planetesimals
System/Galaxy/Universe
Cosmic Facts
100

The inner planets in order from inner most on out?

What is Mercury / Venus / Earth / Mars

100

List the outer planets in order from outermost to innermost

What is Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter

100

Asteroids are made primarily of 

What is metals and solid nonmetals

100

Our Galaxy is called the

What is the Milky Way!

100

Majority of the Matter in the known universe is what element?

What is Hydrogen!

200

The percentage of metal making up the inner planets increases as you get closer to ....

What is the Sun

200

The gravitational pull from our star and from this planet has trapped and stabilized a band of metal rich asteroids.

What is Jupiter!

200

Comets are made of mainly what?

What are lighter nonmetals and gases

200

We know Stars anchor solar systems while ___________anchor Galaxies.

What is a black hole!

200

What planet has the most extreme orbit and tilt resulting in the biggest seasonal changes

What is Uranus

300

The 2 planet and the 4th planets from the sun?

What is Venus & Mars

300

The True Gas Giants are which planets?

What is Jupiter & Saturn!

300

A Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorite went to a cosmic planet's party, which one actually made it?

What is a Meteorite!

300

The nearest Galaxy to our own is called?

What is the Andromeda Galaxy!

300

Name the 5 planets that can be seen in the night sky with the human eye at some time during the year? 

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn

400

The planet with the longest revolution

What is Mars because it is farthest and has the weakest gravitational influence on it.

400

The Ice planets are frozen gas due to what?

What would be reduced energy from our star or their extreme distance from our sun

400

A shooting star is also known as a ?

What is a Meteor

400

All the energy and matter from the beginning of time is still present today.  This statement is embodied in what 2 laws of physics.

What is the Law of Conservation of Energy & Law of Conservation of Matter

400
What are the 2 hottest planets?
What is Mercury and Venus?
500

The planets with currently active tectonic activity 

What are Venus & Earth

500

What is the reason for Jupiter and Saturn's increased Moon count?

What is their gravity...they were able to capture more dwarf planets and planetesimals early on in our solar systems formation.

500

This galactic substances builds Planetesimals...Planetesimals build dwarf planets and planets.  Hint:  It is truly Interstellar!

What is Interstellar Dust!

500

When a star dies, depending on its size, it becomes a brown dwarf, a neutron star, blows up in supernova or becomes a ....

What is a black hole!

500

What does 'sol' mean ?

What is 'Sun'

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