The Sun & Stars
The sun has what amount of gravitational pull?
What is a CRAZY amount
All planets in our solar system revolve around this.
What is the Sun?
These four planets are closest to the Sun and have rocky surfaces.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
These outer planets are also called this, meaning “Jupiter-like.”
What are Jovian planets?
These rocky bodies mostly orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
The Sun is classified as this type of glowing object made of hot gases.
What is a star?
The galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
This is the smallest planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury?
These two planets are gas giants.
What are Jupiter and Saturn?
Comets are often called these because they contain dust, ice, and frozen gases.
What are “dirty snowballs”?
These two elements make up most of the Sun.
What are hydrogen and helium?
The number of planets in our solar system.
What is eight?
This planet is Earth’s “evil twin” because of its similar size and past conditions.
What is Venus?
This planet is the largest in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
A comet’s tail always points in this direction.
What is away from the Sun?
Stars and the Sun do this with light, while planets and moons only reflect it.
What is emit light?
Our solar system is only one out of about this many in the Milky Way.
What is 500?
The only planet known to support life.
What is Earth?
This planet rotates on its side and is the coldest.
What is Uranus?
A meteoroid becomes this when it enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns.
What is a meteor?
Our Sun is considered this size/type of star.
What is an average-sized star?
This zone around the Sun has temperatures “just right” for life.
What is the Goldilocks zone?
This terrestrial planet may have supported life long ago.
What is Mars?
The outermost planet and the second coldest.
What is Neptune?
If a meteor survives the atmosphere and hits the ground, it is called this.
What is a meteorite?