Earth
Which planet is most similar in SIZE to Earth?
What is Venus?
Have humans been able to set foot on any planets yet?
What is no.
What are the two types of planets in our solar system? (not including a dwarf planet)
What are terrestrial planets and Gas Giants.
True or false, the Sun is a star?
what is true.
True or false, the Sun orbits around the Earth?
what is false?
How many days does it take for the Earth to do a full revolution around the Sun?
365
What does ISS stand for?
What is the International Space Station?
Which planets are terrestrial planets?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
These are groups of stars that make imaginary pictures such as Orion, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor.
what are constellations?
which is larger, our solar system or our galaxy?
What is our galaxy.
when Earth rotates on its axis we end up with ______ on Earth?
What is day and night.
What is Canada's contribution to space exploration called?
The Canada arm
True or false, planets 'twinkle' when we see them in the sky.
What is false.
How many planets are in our solar system? Not including Pluto.
What is 8.
These occur as Earth revolves around the sun due to different hemispheres of Earth being tilted toward or away from the sun.
What are seasons?
What piece of technology does the Canada arm help 'pick up'
What is satellites
Which planets are considered Gas Giants?
What are, Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune-Uranus.
This object (often called a shooting star) burns up or vaporizes when it enters Earths atmosphere. it does not reach Earths surface.
What is a meteor?
What galaxy does our solar system exist in?
What is the Milky Way?
What is the difference between a rotation and a revolution?
What is a rotation is the Earth spinning on its axis which gives us day and night. One rotation takes 24 hours. A revolution is the path the Earth takes as it circles around the sun, giving us seasons. One revolution takes 365 days.
This piece of technology is valuable for studying objects in space because it takes clearer pictures than telescopes on Earth.
What is the Hubble Space telescope?
What is the order of the planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Scientists estimate that the Milky Way has around ___ billion stars?
What is 400 billion
How long ago was our solar system formed?
What is 4.6 billion years ago?