Solar System
Tides
Lunar Phases
Celestial Bodies
100

This planet has a large red spot on it.

What is Jupiter?

100

This is the type of tide with the most extreme highs and lows.

What are spring tides?
100

This phase is also called the "Dark" moon.

What is a New Moon?

100

This dwarf planet use to be considered a planet until the IAU reclassified it.

What is Pluto?

200

This is the hottest planet in our solar system.

What is Venus?

200

This is the type of tide with mellow high tides and low tides.

What are neap tides?

200

This phrase means the moon is getting darker or dimmer.

What is Waning?

200

This is dwarf planet is closest to the Sun and the largest dwarf planet in our system.

What is Ceres?

300

This is the most dense object in our Solar System.

What is the Sun?

300

Spring Tides can occur during these two phases of the moon.

What is a Full moon and New moon?

300

This phrase means the moon is more than 50% illuminated.

What is Gibbous?

300

This is the rule that Dwarf planets break and keep them from being considered planets.

What is "clearing your orbit"?

400

This group of asteroids and comets is located in the farthest reaches of our solar system.

What is the Kuiper Belt?

400

This is the order of the celestial bodies to create a Neap tide? (2 correct answers, you may draw them)

What is the moon on top or bottom of the Earth and the Sun at a 90 degree angle?

400

This is the phase of the moon that comes after the Third Quarter.

What is a Waning Crescent?

400

These are the parts of a comet.

What is a Nucleus, Tail and Coma?
500

This is where our long range Comets form and travel from.

What is the Oort Cloud?

500

Spring tides can only occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in this order. (2 Answers, you may draw them)

What is Sun-Earth-Moon or Sun-Moon-Earth?

500

This is the part of the moon that you use to describe its phase.

What is the Light Side?

500
This is the name of the phase of a meteor as it orbits the Sun.

What is a meteoroid?

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