The Sun
Stars
Planets
The Earth
The Moon
100
The sun is a _______.
What is a star?
100
The definition of a star.
What is a huge ball of very hot gases in space?
100
The number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8?
100
The Earth's planet number (from the sun).
What is 3rd planet from the sun?
100
The definition of a moon.
What is any natural body that revolves around a planet?
200
Describe the location of the sun in our solar system.
What is in the center? All planets and other objects revolve around the sun.
200
The definition of a constellation.
What is a pattern of stars in the sky?
200
The names of the planets in our solar system in order starting from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter?
200
Describe Earth's rotation.
What is the Earth spins on its axis?
200
The reason we can see the moon shining at night.
What is it reflects the sun's light?
300
The sun is: a. a small star b. an average sized star c. a very large star
What is an average sized star?
300
The color of the hottest and largest stars and the color of the coolest and smallest stars.
What is hottest/largest--blue and coolest/smallest--red?
300
The name/term for Pluto.
What is a dwarf planet or a planetoid?
300
The length of one rotation and one revolution.
What is 24 hours for one rotation and 365 days for one revolution?
300
Two things the Earth and the Moon have in common.
What is they are both rocky, have craters and volcanoes, have gravity, etc.?
400
Darker places on the sun, which actually means it is cooler than the rest of the surface.
What are sun spots?
400
The reason stars are only visible at night.
What is because the sun is too bright during the day?
400
Name a difference between the 4 inner planets and the 4 outer planets.
What is inner planets are rocky, small, and have few moons and outer planets are made of gas, are large, and have many moons?
400
Describe Earth's revolution.
What is the Earth travels in an orbit around the sun.
400
Two ways the Moon and the Earth are different.
What is many ways? Your teacher will accept all reasonable answers.
500
The sun is important to life on Earth because...
What is because the sun provides the energy important to life--light and heat? Without the sun, life would not exist on Earth.
500
Two that constellations were useful to people throughout history.
What is they were used for directions (North Star) and they were used by farmers for planting and harvesting?
500
________________ separates the inner and outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
500
This causes day and night. (Detailed explanation needed.)
What is the Earth's rotation? When the Earth faces away from the sun it is night, when the Earth faces toward the sun it is day.
500
Name the astronaut who first walked on the moon and his famous words as he did so.
What is Neil Armstrong and "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."?
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