View From Earth
A star almost directly above the North Pole is called
What is North Star (Polaris)?
Galaxies are held together by _________
What is gravity?
Name the four inner planets?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
What are the outer planets also called?
What is Jovian planets or gas giants?
A small ball of ice, rock, and dust particles?
What is a comet?
What is a galaxy?
The Milky Way consists of these three things held together by a gravitational pull.
What is stars, gas and dust?
Inner planets have what kind of core?
What is large, solid core?
Name the four outer planets?
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
Chunks of rock that are found in space?
What is a meteor?
The groups of stars in the sky are also called this.
What is constellations?
What are the three types of galaxies?
What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular
Inner planets are also known as?
What is terrestrial planets?
Outer planets have what kind of core?
What is small, solid core?
When a meteor reaches the ground without vaporizing is called?
What is meteorite?
An object whose gravity is so great, no light can escape it.
What is a black hole?
How long does it take to travel across the Milky Way?
What is 100,000 years?
Earth and Saturn are both planets orbiting the sun. Which of these other features do the two planets have in common?
A. They have a thin atmosphere
B. They rotate about an axis
C. Their orbits are the same length
D. They have about the same mass
What is B. They rotate about an axis?
What do all gas giants have in common.
All are made of gases, rings, and have many moons.
These are found in belts that orbit the sun and range in size?
What is an asteroid?
A meteoroid is a chunk of rock traveling through the solar system. How is a meteorite related to a meteoroid?
A. A meteorite is a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere
B. A meteorite is a meteoroid that has broken into smaller pieces
C. A meteorite is a meteoroid that is larger in size than an asteroid
D. A meteorite is meteoroid that reaches the surface of Earth
What is D. A meteorite is meteoroid that reaches the surface of Earth?
What does the Milky Way look like?
What is a large cloudy band of stars spreading across the sky?
All the planets in the solar system orbit the sun. What is the main difference between the orbits of the inner and outer planets?
What is outer planets' orbits are longer than the inner planets' orbits?
Which of these characteristics distinguishes the outer planets from the inner planets?
A. The outer planets have many moons
B. The outer planets orbit in a different direction
C. The outer planets have higher densities
D. The outer planets have smaller diameters
What is A. The outer planets have many moons?
Until 2006, Pluto was considered the solar system's ninth planet. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet. Which of these properties of Pluto explains why it is classified as a dwarf planet?
A. It does not orbit the Sun
B. It is too far from Earth
C. It is too small to be a planet
D. It has other bodies in its orbit
What is D. It has other bodies in its orbit?