Planets
Sun
Asteroids & Comets
Solar System
Dwarves and Satellites
100
Scientists call it a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
100
This object is 93,000,000 miles from Earth and accounts 99.8% of the total mass in the solar system.
What is the sun?
100
These big chunks of ice, rock, and gas are thought to possibly have information about the origin of our solar system.
What are comets?
100
What are the components that make up the solar system?
What are planets, sun, asteroids, comets, and satellites?
100
This is Earth's natural satellite.
What is the moon?
200
These are the terrestrial planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
200
The sun revolves around the Earth.
What is false, because the earth revolves around the sun?
200
There are millions of these chunks of rock and iron beyond Mercury's orbit.
What are asteroids?
200
This is the function(job) of the components of the solar system.
What is to organize the planets and moons into separate orbits?
200
This lucky planet has 13 satellites.
What is Neptune?
300
The planets are known as the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
300
Planets travel on these paths around the sun.
What are orbits?
300
They can be up to 600 miles in circumference and have been known to have their own satellites, or moons, on occasion.
What are asteroids?
300
This renaissance mathematician created the heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
I am a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
400
The sun exerts this force to hold planets in their orbits.
What is gravity?
400
The sun is found in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
400
These orbit the sun in long oval paths and have a tail that shows up as they get nearer to the sun.
What are comets?
400
Saturn is the only gas giant with rings.
What is false, because all of the gas giants have rings?
400
Ida is an asteroid and has one of these.
What is a satellite, or moon?
500
This boundary is made of chunks of rock and iron and divides the terrestrial planets and gas giants.
What is the asteroid belt?
500
The sun is made mainly of these two elements.
What is hydrogen and helium?
500
This disk-shaped zone of icy objects is beyond the gas giants.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
500
This is the order of the planets starting with the planet closest to the sun and then moving away from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
500
The sun is the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
What is false. The sun is the center of our solar system. The Milky Way galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars?
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