Solar System

What is Solar System

100

How many planets make up the solar system? 

What is eight planets? 

200

What does the solar system include?

What is sun, planets, dwarf planets, moon, dust, gas, and asteroids

300

What is the order of the planets (closest to farthest) 

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? 

mnemonic device: My Very Educated Mother Just Served us Noodles 

 

400

What is the mnemonic device for the planets according to their sizes largest to smallest? 

What is the order Jason Sat Under Ninety-Eight Very Marvelous Monsters?

500

Bonus 50 points: Who is the ninth planet from the sun and no it is considered a dwarf planet

Pluto

Earth and Mars

100

Who is known as the "red planet' and has a thin atmosphere? 

Mars 

200

What does Earth's atmosphere consist of? 

What is liquid water 

300

Who is a terrestrial planet and what type of core does it have 

Earth and Mars and a rocky core.

400

What planets are terrestial planets? 

What is mercury, venus, earth, and mars?

500

Bonus: What planet takes 24 hours to rotate around its axis and also revolves?

What is Earth?

Mercury and Venus

100

How far is Mercury from sun? 

1st planet 

200

Where is the location of Venus and describe two characteristics of it? 

2nd planet from the sun 

similar to Earth in size and mass

300

What two words make up Mercury and Venus in the phrase that makes up the largest to smallest planets in size? 

What is Very and Monsters 

400

What planet is the smallest planet in our solar system and is heavily cratered? 

What is Mercury? 

500

List three traits the inner planets have 

What is 1. closest to the Sun, 2. warmer and smaller, 3. made of a solid material?

Jupiter and Saturn

100

Who is the the 5th planet from sun 

Jupiter 

200

What are characteristics that describe Jupiter? 

What is no solid surface, colored cloud patterns, and largest planet in the solar system? 

300

Who are the gas giants? 

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 

400

What planet did early scientists think was the only planet with rings? 

What is Saturn 

500

Who are the four gas giants?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 

Uranus and Neptune

100

What two planets are classified as gas giants? 

What is Uranus and Neptune? 

200

What planet spins on its side and is the 7th planet from the sun? 

What is Uranus? 

300

What is the planet 4 times the size of Earth and has a large atmosphere? 

What is Uranus? 

400

What do all gas giants have that scientist once only thought Saturn had? 

What are rings? 

500

What planet is the word Under in the mnemonic phrase Jason Sat Under Ninety-Eight Very Marvelous Monsters 

What is Uranus