Planets
Which planet is the only one currently with living things on it?
What is Earth
Which 2 planets do not have any moons?
What are Mercury and Venus
What is an asteroid?
What is a large space rock
What were the missions to the moon in the 60’s and 70’s called?
What is Apollo
Who was the 1st man on the moon?
Who is Neil Armstrong
Which planet is flipped on its side
What is Uranus
What is significant about Io?
Where is the asteroid belt located?
What did the astronauts on Apollo 11 say that the moon smelled like?
What is burning ashes
Who was the first to come up with the model of the universe that placed Earth in the middle?
Who is Aristotle
Which planet is considered the hottest?
What is Venus
Who discovered Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons?
Who is Galileo
Where would you find a Trojan asteroid?
What is either in front or behind Jupiter's orbit
What is the name of the calendar that we currently use today?
What is the Gregorian calendar
Who were the 3 men on board Apollo 11?
Who is Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins
Which planet is the largest?
What is Jupiter
What are the 2 moons of Mars?
What is Phobos and Deimos
What is the difference between a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?
What is meteoroid is when it is in space, meteor is when it enters Earth's atmosphere, & meteorite is when it hits Earth's surface.
What are the 8 phases of the moon starting with the new moon?
What are new moon, waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent
Who was the 1st to observe space with a telescope?
Who is Galileo Galilei
What type of planet is Pluto?
What is a dwarf planet
Which planet has the moon Titan, and what is significant about that moon?
What is Neptune and it orbits backwards
What are the 4 parts of a comet and explain what they are?
What are the coma, nucleus, ion tail, and dust tail
What is the Giant Impact Hypothesis?
What is the hypothesis upon how Earth's moon was formed.
What is the difference between Ptolemy’s model of the Solar System and Copernicus’s model?
What is Ptolemy's model had the Earth in the center and Copernicus' model had the Sun in the center.