Planetary Order
Solar System Components
Planet Characteristics
Other things in the sky
Vocabulary
100
The closest planet to the sun.
What is mercury.
100
The rocky planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
100
I am known for my huge rings.
What is Saturn.
100
Something that is mostly ice mixed with rocks and dust that orbits the sun and can leave long glowing tails.
What is a comet.
100
I am made of the sun and all the objects in orbit around it.
What is the solar system.
200
Earth
What is the third planet from the sun.
200
The gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
200
I am the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter.
200
We are burning balls of gas. The sun is one of us.
What are stars.
200
This is teh curved path of an object in space.
What is an orbit.
300
The fifth planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter.
300
People call me a shooting star, but that is not accurate.
What is a meteorite. (or meteor, meteoroid)
300
I am the only planet that is known to support life.
What is Earth.
300
We are round like planets and orbit the sun but we are not considered planets because we have not cleared our orbits.
What are Pluto, Ceres, and Eris (or dwarf planets).
300
This is the force of attraction between all objects.
What is gravity.
400
The farthest planet from the sun.
What is Neptune.
400
Our names are Pluto, Ceres, and Eris.
What are dwarf planets.
400
The planet that appears to be red.
What is Mars.
400
These are round objects in space that are satellites of the sun.
What are planets.
400
This means to move in a circular orbit around another thing.
What is revolve. (revolution)
500
The sixth planet from the sun.
What is Saturn.
500
This area is made of a lot of ice, metal, rocks, and dwarf planets.
What is the Kuiper belt. (or asteroid belt)
500
The planet that has the longest Earth day orbit around the sun.
What is Neptune.
500
We are satellites of any planets. Some planets have many of us.
What are moons.
500
This means to spin in a circle on an axis or center point.
What is rotate. (rotation).
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