I get my color from the rust in my solid. I am dusty, rusty, and very dry.
What is Mars
100
When the Moon comes between the earth and the Sun and blocks out all the sun's light - the Moon slips across the face of the Sun like the lens cap on a camera
What is a solar eclipse
100
The first phase of the moon after new moon (think about your moon chart)
what is waxing crescent or crescent
100
Outer planets are mostly made of this, and they are otherwise known as _______ planets
What is gas, gaseous
200
I am what some may call the sun's freckles
What are sunspots
200
I am heavier than all the other planets combined. I also spin faster than any other planet. More than 1,300 Earths could fit inside me. there is a storm that has been raging nonstop for at least three hundred years on me.
What is Jupiter
200
What would happen if earth was slightly closer to the sun?
What is earth burning up
200
The phase of the moon called right after a full moon?waning gibbous or waning
What is waning gibbous or waning
200
The inner planents are made up of this kind of matter, and are otherwise known as ______ planets
What is solid, terrestrial
300
I am so small that you need a telescope to see me. I hide out in the sun's glare so the best time to see me is just before sunrise or just after sunset. Mice would love me because I look like a ball of gray Swiss cheese! I have craters all over me!
What is Mercury
300
I am a gaseous planet and I have the most spectacular rings made of ice and rock.
What is Saturn
300
What would happen if earth was slightly farther away from the sun than it is now?
Earth would freeze
300
The word "sol" means...
sun
300
This is the order of the planets from the sun
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
400
I am named after a famous composer. Some of my fellow craters are named Shakespeare and Michelangelo. What is my name and what am I?
What is Mozart. Mercury's biggest crater.
400
I am twice as far away from the sun as my neighbor. I was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope. I am gaseous. I spin like a Ferris wheel unlike the other planets that spin side to side like a merry-go-round.
What is Uranus.
400
when the moon looks like it is getting smaller and smaller every night? (what is this called?)
What is waning - it seems like the moon is changing shape because of the different angles from which we see the moon's surface
400
Center of the solar system
What is the sun
400
The reason life is able to exist on Earth and not on any other planet
What is the exact distance that the earth is from the sun. This distance is allows for the perfect conditions for life to exists
500
I am made mostly of carbon dioxide, and I am hot enough to melt lead! I am almost the same size as your planet, Earth.
What is Venus.
500
I am a faint blue-green color. I am the farthest away from the sun and there are super-cold winds on me.
What is Neptune.
500
When the moon looks like it is getting bigger - closer to a full moon?
what is waxing
500
The only object in our solar system that doesn't move
What is sun
500
This is what it is called when earth makes one full trip around the sun