The rocky System
This is the name of the burning star at the very center of our solar system
What is the sun?
This giant planet is the biggest one in our whole solar system.
A. Jupiter
B. Mars
C. K-159
What is Jupiter?
This is the bright rock that lights up our night sky and orbits around Earth
What is the moon?
This invisible force keeps your feet on the ground and stops you from floating away.
What is gravity?
This is the shape of the moon when it looks like a big, bright circle in the sky
What is a full moon?
This is the name of the planet we live on!
What is the Earth?
These are made of ice and rock and wrap all the way around Saturn
What are rings?
These people wear special suits and fly in rockets to explore space
What are astronauts?
This is the pitch-black shape that forms behind Earth when the sun shines on it.
A. Shadow.
B. Filter.
C. Snow.
What is a shadow?
Earth takes exactly this many days to travel all the way around the sun?
What is 365? (Except for 1 year)
This planet is the closest to the Sun and is very, very hot.
A. Pluto.
B. Mars.
C. Mercury.
What is Mercury?
This giant planet has a huge "Great Red Spot" on it that is actually a giant storm.
A. Mars
B. Jupiter
What is Jupiter?
This giant space rock that looks like a dirty snowball has a tail that points away from the Sun.
(Hint Halley's.)
What is a comet?
This is the path an object takes as it travels all the way around a planet or star.
A. Floats
B. Orbit.
C. Gravitates.
What is an orbit?
This is the total number of official planets in our solar system?
What is eight?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet" because of all the rusty dust on it.
What is Mars?
True or false... Uranus spins completely on its side?
True
This rocky, dusty area in space floats between the planets Mars and Jupiter?
A. Asteroid Belt
B. Super nova
C. The sun
What is an asteroid belt?
This is the special machine scientists use on Earth to look at faraway stars and planets.
What is a Telescope?
This is the name of the galaxy that holds our solar system?
What is the Milky Way?
Even though it is the second planet from the Sun, this planet is the hottest one of all!
A. Sun.
B. Venus.
C. Krypton
What is Venus?
This freezing cold planet is the furthest one away from the Sun
A. Pluto
B. Neptune
What is Neptune?
This used to be the 9th planet, but scientists decided it is a "dwarf planet" instead.
A. Mars
B. Pluto
C. Jupiter
What is Pluto?
This is the word used to describe a place like outer space that has absolutely no air to breathe?
A. Vacuum
B. Interstellar
C. Star-trooper
What is a vacuum?
Astronauts bounce high when walking on the moon because it has less of this than Earth?
What is Gravity?