Planets
Forces
Sun/Earth
Moon
Stars
100
This is the acronym for the order of the planets
What is My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos?
100
Gravity does this to the planets.
What is causing the planets to rotating around the sun?
100
The spinning of the Earth is called this.
What is rotation?
100
This is the number of moon phases that Earth experiences.
What is 8 phases?
100
This is the definition of a constellation.
What is a constellation is a group of visible stars that form a pattern when viewed from Earth?
200
These are the planets that are labeled as Gas Giants.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
200
True or False: Gravity attracts ALL objects towards one another.
What is True?
200
This is the explaination of revolution.
What is the earth takes 365 days to orbit around the Sun?
200
The Moon effects this part of Earth.
What are the Ocean and tides?
200
This explains why we see different constellations.
What is the Earth is rotating?
300
Out of the 4 terrestrial planets, this is the largest.
What is Earth?
300
By this process the solar energy reaches Earth.
What is radiation?
300
This the imaginary line that goes through the Earth (hint: the Earth spins on this)....
What is the Axis?
300
As the moon moves from a new moon to a full moon, you see this.
What is the moon appears increasingly lighter, more visible, etc?
300
This is why we can't see constellations during the day.
Why is the Sun so bright?
400
These are the locations of the two main asteriod belts in our Solar System. (A drawing will also be accepted)
What is the asteriod belt is located between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper Belt is after Uranus?
400
This is the explaination of air resistance. (GenerationGenius notes on gravity)
What is air slows down heavier objects more than others?
400
This is the degree at which the Earth is tilted.
What is 23.5 degrees?
400
#5 shows this moon phase.
What is Full Moon?
400
What is Orion?
500
These are the criteria an object in space must meet to be called a planet.
What is
- It must orbit the sun
- It must be big enough to be round due to its own gravity.
- It must clear its orbit of other objects.
500
These words finish the following sentence:
The more _____ an object has the more _____ pull it has.
What is mass and gravitational?
500
This explains why the Northern Hemisphere experiences different seasons than the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Earth is titled at an angle that causes one side to be leaning closer to the Sun and the other farther away?
500
#8 shows this Moon Phase.
What is Waning Crescent?
500
What is big Dipper?