Planets
General Information
Our Moon
Sun and Stars
Fun Facts
100
Name the 4 inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
A scientist that studies the universe is called
What is an astronomer?
100
Name the number of moons planet Earth has.
What is one?
100
Name the objects in space made up of hot gases.
What are stars?
100
Tell how many hours in one Earth day.
What is 24 hours?
200
Name the 4 outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
200
Name why Venus is the hottest planet.
What is because its clouds trap in a lot of heat?
200

The moon is made out of

What is rocks?
200
Name the star that is closest to Earth.
What is the sun?
200
What position is Earth from the sun?
What is third?
300
Name the only known planet with water.
What is Earth?
300
Name the dwarf planet
What is Pluto?
300
Name an object that orbits Earth or another planet (like our moon).
What is a satellite?
300

Tell how long it takes the earth to orbit the sun.

What is 1 year or 365 days?

300
Name a rocky object that orbits the sun. It can be from a few feet wide to a hundred miles wide.
What is an asteroid?
400
Name the largest planet?
What is Jupiter?
400
Tell how Uranus is different from the other planets.
What is it spins on its side like a rolling ball
400
True or False. The moon is made of cheese.
What is false?
400
Name a huge collection of stars, gas and dust.
What is a galaxy?
400
Name a space rock that falls through the sky, sometimes called a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
500
Name 1 reason why scientists feel Pluto should no longer be a planet.
What is it is too small? What is there are other objects in space larger than Pluto?
500
Name the smallest planet in our Solar System.
What is Mercury?
500
True or False-All the planets have just 1 moon.
What is false?
500
Name the galaxy in which we are found.
What is the Milky Way?
500
Name a chunk of ice, gas and dust that orbits the sun. The gas and dust often forms a tail.
What is a comet?
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