Vocabulary
Planets
Found in the Solar System
Planet Characteristics
MISC.
100
This is where you can go to look at the stars and planets in your community
What is a Planetarium?
100
This is the only known planet known to have life on it.
What is Earth?
100
This is a collection of ice and rock that flies around our solar system, the most famous on is "Halley's"
What is a comet?
100
Mars is this color.
What is red.
100
This is the name of the coolest teacher in the Universe.
Who is Alex Kreifels?
200
This is the name given to the person who's job it is to go into space using a rocket.
What is an Astronaut?
200
Known as the "Red Planet", this is the fourth planet from the sun in our solar system.
What is Mars?
200
This is the name for the collection of rocks that separates Mars and Jupiter, you can say it holds the universe's pants up!
What is the Asteroid Belt?
200
Saturn must have been loved, because someone put this on it. Beyonce agrees.
What is rings.
200
Winning the national championship in 1997, this college football team is the greatest of all time.
Who are the Nebraska Cornhuskers?
300
This is the name given to some of the planets in our solar system, Ex. Jupiter
What is a Gas Giant
300
This is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
300
This flying rock "Showers" across our sky sometimes.
What is a Meteorite?
300
This planet has a giant storm going on, it is often referred to as the "eye" of the planet.
What is Jupiter?
300
This superhero has a rodent mascot and uses his wealth to fund his crime fighting in Gotham City.
Who is Batman?
400
This is the route a planet takes around our sun in our solar system.
What is an Orbit?
400
This is the biggest planet in our solar system, it is also a gas giant.
What is Jupiter?
400
This is the name for a group of stars that makes up a shape in our sky.
What is a constellation?
400
Not technically a planet, this brings light to our solar system.
What is the Sun?
400
This is the name of the group of games that happens every 2 years, there are winter and summer games.
What is the olympics?
500
This is the name for the formation on a planet caused by an asteroid crashing into it.
What is a Crater?
500
This isn't considered a planet anymore, but actually a dwarf planet. It is also the furtherest from the sun.
What is Pluto?
500
This is found on earth and often "weighs" on your shoulders, but in space, there is hardly any to bring you to earth?
What is Gravity?
500
This planet is named for a greek god and is the 8th in our solar system
What is Neptune?
500
This is the name of Mr. Kreifels' favorite triangle.
What is an isosceles triangle?
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