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What is the name of our planet?
Earth
100
True or False; We experience summer because the Earth gets closer to the Sun.
False. Why?
100
Our sun is an example of what?
A star
100
This planet is closest to the sun.
Mercury
100
The Sun rises in which direction, and sets in which direction?
The Sun rises in the East, and sets in the West
200
What is the second planet from the sun?
Venus
200
This is the name of the imaginary line that is through the centre of the earth.
The axis.
200
What is the name of the galaxy that we live in?
The Milky Way
200
This planet is known for it's beautiful rings. As a bonus, what are those rings made out of?
Saturn Dust, rock, and ice.
200
What is the centre of our Solar System?
The Sun.
300
Name the 4 Gas giants. Bonus points, what are the remaining planets, including the dwarf planet?
Gas Giants; Saturn Jupiter Neptune Uranus 4 Other planets; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Dwarf Planet; Pluto
300
What causes the seasons of the planet?
The earth tilts!
300
What are galaxies?
A grouping of thousands and thousands of stars.
300
This plant is surrounded by clouds. As a bonus question, what is the temperature of the planet (ie, is it hot or cold?)
Venus. Very very hot.
300
The Earth is _____ and ______ through space.
Hurtling and Spinning
400
What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
400
What is it called when Earth circles the Sun once fully, and we experience all four seasons?
An orbit
400
True or false; Our Solar System is millions of miles across.
It is actually billions of miles across.
400
How many planets have rings?. Four a bonus, what are the names of those planets?
4; Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune.
400
This planet contains a giant red spot. For bonus points, how big is that spot?
Jupiter. It's the size of 3 earths!
500
What is the 7th planet from the Sun?
Uranus
500
When we experience winter in Canada, what do Australians experience? Why
Australians experience summer, because we're in the northern hemisphere, and they're in the opposite- the south.
500
True or false. People have traveled and landed on other planets.
False. While robots have traveled to other planets, we have only traveled to the Moon.
500
True or False; in a constellation, the stars are sitting next to each other in the sky, and are side by side.
False. The stars are actually far apart, but on Earth, we see them on the same plane.
500
Something (bonus points if you can name what) crashed into the earth long ago, and created what object in our sky?
It created our moon. And it was a small planet like object named Theia
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