Planets
Bigger, Faster, Hotter
Is it made of Cheese?
Little objects and their homes
Orbits and Observers
100
These are known as the terrestrial planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
This is the hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Venus?
100
This moon has an icy outer layer and a liquid ocean underneath
What is Enceladus?
100
These are rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter
What are asteroids?
100
Planets orbit the sun in this shape
What is an ellipse?
200
These are known as the outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
200
This is the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
200
This moon is the largest in the solar system
What is Ganymede?
200
These are icy objects past Neptune
What are comets?
200
This astronomer came up with the heliocentric model.
Who is Copernicus?
300
These are known as the inferior planets
What is Mercury and Venus?
300
This is the fastest planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury?
300
This moon is covered in liquid methane
What is Titan?
300
These are the places where you can find comets
What is the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt?
300
This astronomer's observations of Venus and Jupiter helped support the heliocentric model.
Who is Galileo?
400
All of the inner planets have this in them
What is an iron core?
400
This is the coldest planet in the solar system
What is Neptune?
400
The two moons of Mars are named after these gods.
What are Phobos and Deimos?
400
These are tiny objects flying through space
What are meteroids?
400
This astronomer came up with three laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
500
All of the outer planets have this in common.
What is they are made up of gas and they all have many moons and rings?
500
Jupiter is this many times larger than the rest of the planets combined.
What is 2.5 times?
500
There are no moons orbiting here
What are Venus and Mercury?
500
If a tiny object hits the Earth, it is known as this.
What is a meteorite?
500
This astronomer proposed that planets moved on little circles on bigger circles called epicycles
Who is Ptolemy?