Planets
Sun
Moon
Stars
Planet-pourri
100
The planet closest to Earth.
What is the Mercury?
100
The sun is made of this.
What is gasses?
100
The moon is made of this.
What is rock?
100
Name our closest star.
What is the sun?
100
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
200
This planet is the hottest planet
What is Venus?
200
How far away is the sun from Earth?
What is 93 million miles away?
200
How many days does it take the moon to orbit the earth?
What is 28 days (one month)?
200
The name for a group of stars that create a pattern.
What is a constellation?
200
A student made a model of how the Earth, Moon, and Sun orbit. She used ping pong balls to represent each one. She painted each one a different color. Then, she placed the Moon and Earth close together, and the Sun much further away demonstrating the limitations of student models.
What is using the same sized ping-pong balls?
300
This planet is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
300
How old is the sun?
What is 5 billion years old?
300
This phase of the moon is the shape of a skinny sliver.
What is crescent moon?
300
The famous constellation "Big ______"
What is the Big Dipper?
300
There are many objects in the sky. This is the largest star in our solar system.
What is the sun?
400
Name the planets in order starting with the one closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
400
The sun gives us these two things.
What is heat and light?
400
Name the year Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
What is 1969?
400
Name the four different colors for a star.
What is blue, white, yellow, and red?
400
This is a correct model of _______
What is how the Sun, Earth, and Moon move?
500
These two planets do not have any moons.
What is Mercury and Venus?
500
How hot is the surface of the Sun
What is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit?
500
How does the moon affect the ocean water?
What is the moon causes waves in the ocean due to gravitational pull with the Earth.
500
The name of the space telescope that was launched almost 10 years ago to take pictures of outer space.
What is the Hubble space telescope?
500
These 4 planets are closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?