Space
Technology
Solar System
Earth
Planets
100
A frozen mass of ice and dust orbiting the sun
What is a comet?
100
The production of goods on a large scale is called
What is manufacturing?
100
A small asteroid is called
What is a meteoroid?
100
This causes the changing seasons on Earth
What is the Earth's tilt?
100
What is the closest planet to Earth?
What is Venus?
200
A rocky mass up to serveral hundred kilometers wide that revolves around the Sun
What is an asteroid?
200
Henry Ford invented this to reduce time during production, which allows things to move through a factory while workers add parts to it
What is an assembly line?
200
The shape of the lit side of the moon is called
What is moon phase?
200
The imaginary line that goes through the center of Earth is its
What is axis?
200
This is sometimes referred to as the "double planet"
What is Pluto?
300
The outermost and thinnest of Earth's layers is called
What is crust?
300
A computer based network of information sources
What is World Wide Web?
300
The innermost layer of Earth is
What is core?
300
Earth's rotation goes in what direction
What is from west to east?
300
This planet has almost no atmosphere and its temperature changes from -170 C to 430 C
What is Mercury?
400
The passage of the Moon between the Sun and the Earth; when the moon casts its shadow on the Earth
What is solar eclipse?
400
A small piece of a computer that contains microscopic circuits. This makes it possible for computers to process information very quickly.
What is a microchip?
400
What countries agreed to build the International Space Station?
What is United States, Russia, Japan, and Canada?
400
Earth's orbit is a(n) This is like a circle stretched out in opposite directions.
What is ellipse?
400
Methane gas gives this planet a blue-green color
What is Uranus?
500
A large hole shaped like a bowl on the surface of Earth, another planet, a moon, or other object in space is called
What is crater?
500
What two countries led the Space Race (long-term competition to explore space)
What is United States and Soviet Union?
500
The biggest stars in the solar system are called
What are supergiants?
500
What are the four phases of the moon?
What are New Moon, Cresent Moon, First Quarter, and Full Moon?
500
This "giant gas" is the largest planet in the solar system
What is Jupiter?
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