Twinkle, twinkle
Speeding along
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Lil' bits
100
It's just a medium size star, but it's ours.
What is the sun?
100
Dust particles just following along behind.
What is the tail of a comet?
100
This powers the sun.
What is nuclear fusion?
100
The luna light (light from the moons) is really from....
What is reflected sunlight?
100
Demoted from full planet to dwarf....give two reasons why.
What is the size of Pluto,its irregular orbit, and size of moon related to planet size?
200
The name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
200
76 years
What is number of years between Halley's Comet's viewing from earth?
200
Explosions on the sun are just...
What are solar flares?
200
The number of planets that do not have moons. (Name them)
What is Mercury and Venus?
200
We've really just seen one side of this planet.
What is Mercury? (Explain why we only see one side)
300
It's called the "evening star," but a star it is not.
What is Venus?
300
Our nickname is "shooting stars" but stars stay in one place and we are on the move.
What are meteors?
300
What movement does our sun do?
What is rotating in place?
300
It's called a sea, but there's no water here.
What is "maria?"
300
The dwarf planet that is in the Asteroid Belt.
What is Ceres?
400
The reason that planets do not twinkle.
What is reflected light rather than generating their own light?
400
These are just rocks burning in our atmosphere. Only a few make it to earth.
What are meteorites?
400
This happens when the moon passes between the earth and the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
400
This planet has the most moons (sited to date).
What is Jupiter? (63 so far)
400
The smallest planet.
What is Mercury?
500
The loop-like structure that is around the sun?
What is solar prominence?
500
The planet with the shortest rotational time (spins the quickest).
What is Jupiter? (slightly less than 10 hours)
500
This pull from the sun keeps all the planets in orbit around it.
What is gravitational pull of the sun?
500
One planet has a moon that is about half of its size--one reason for dwarf planet status.
What is Pluto?
500
Locations where dwarf planets are found. (Name two)
What are Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, Pluto--beyond our 8 planets?
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