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The sun is a part of our solar system, but it is not a planet. What is it?
What is a star?
What is false?
Is Mars a rocky planet or a gas giant?
What is rocky planet?
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
What is the difference between a waxing moon and a waning moon?
A waxing moon is increasing illumination, a waning moon is decreasing illumination
The asteroid belt lands between what 2 planets?
What is Mars and Jupiter?
True or False - The first animal in space did not survive it's journey to space.
What is false? The fruit flies made it back!
How many moon phases are there?
What is 8?
All the outer planets are also what?
What is gas giants?
What is the smallest planet?
What is Mercury?
What is the difference between meteoroids and meteors?
Meteoroids are objects in space, and as they enter Earth's atmosphere, they become meteors.
What 2 planets have the greatest distance between them?
What is Uranus and Neptune?
What planet has the most moons?
Double points if you know how many!
Venus is known for it's thick yellowish clouds made of sulfuric acid. Does that make Venus a gas giant?
No! Earth has clouds and is still a rocky planet, just like Venus!
What is Jupiter's big red dot?
A massive storm that’s been going on for over 300 years!
True or False - Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon.
What is true?
What chemical appears blue when it is cold, causing Uranus and Neptune's color?
What is methane?
About how many Earths could fit inside the sun?
What is about 1 million?
True or False - Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with rings.
What is false?
Uranus also has very faint rings!
Was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet before or after Ms. Mel was born?
What is after?
If an inner planet were to collide with an outer planet, what would happen to the inner planet?
The inner, rocky planet gets absorbed by the outer gas giant. Everything heats up.
How many moons does Uranus have?
What is 28?
Can dwarf planets have moons?
What is yes?
The Northern Lights are made from what space phenomena?
What is solar wind?
Name one dwarf planet other than Pluto.
What is...
Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea