Solar System
These are objects smaller than planets that are found in the solar system.
What are asteroids, comets, and meteors?
The sun is made of these gases.
What is hydrogen and helium?
This is the smallest planet in our Solar System.
What is Mercury?
There are two types of comets.
What are short-period comets and long-period comets?
This rocky object is found in Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
What is made up of the sun and all of the objects that travel around it?
What is the Solar System?
Number of stars in the solar system.
What is one?
These are the four terrestrial or inner planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
This is an object composed of ice, gas, and dust.
What is a comet?
This is known as a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
This force keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
This is a giant sphere or ball of gases that produces light and heat.
What is a star?
This planet is considered to be Earth's twin due to their similar size?
What is Venus?
These are chunks of rock with irregular shapes found between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
This object is found on Earth's surface after coming from space.
What is a meteorite?
Rocky planets are known as this.
What are the inner planets?
What is the sun?
Which planets are gas giants?
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is the name of a famous comet.
What is Halley's Comet?
This is a rock in space.
What is a meteoroid?
These planets have multiple moons and support ring systems.
What are the outer planets?
The Sun orbits this.
What is the center of the galaxy?
This explains how planets are spaced in the solar system.
What is inner planets are spaced closer together and the outer planets are spaced farther apart?
This is where most of the asteroids are located in the solar system.
What is between Mars and Jupiter in the Asteroid Belt?
As a space rock comes down to earth what would the order be for these words - meteor, meteoroid, and meteorite.
What is meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?