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What school do you go to?
Ridley High School
Which of the follow is NOT a planet?
Earth, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
the Moon
Which vocabulary word means "planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other objects orbiting the sun?"
The solar system
What are "made of ice and orbit around the sun that are different from asteroids because they have a visible tail of gases behind them?"
Comets
How many moons does Earth have?
1
What country do you live in?
United States of America or USA
Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury
Which vocabulary word means "round object, either rocky or made up of gases, that orbits a star?"
Planet
What are "rocks that floats in space, orbiting the Sun?"
asteroids
What did the first astronauts on the moon (Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, & Buzz Aldrin) take back to Earth?
Moon rocks
What Planet do you live on?
Which planet is similar in size and gravitational pull to Earth?
Venus
Which vocabulary word means "a group of stars?"
galaxy
What does the word Curiosity mean?
A desire to learn
Does the Earth's moon have more or less gravity than Earth?
What is the name of our Galaxy?
the Milky Way Galaxy
Which planet does NASA have the rover, Perseverance, traveling to right now?
Mars
What is NASA?
The American group of scientists that study Outer Space.
What does the word Perseverance mean?
To keep at it
How does Neil Armstrong’s footprints stay on the Earth's moon?
There is no air/ atmosphere.
How many universes are there?
One (1)
Which planet is further from the sun?
Neptune
Which vocabulary word means "all of space?"
Universe
Name an object that NASA has sent to space.
Rover, satellite, space shuttle, person
Gravity on the moon is 1/6 as strong as Earth’s gravity. If you threw an object on the moon, it would travel ____ times as far.
6 times