Exploring Space
This tool is used to make distant objects seem closer and larger.
What is a telescope?
This large object (like Saturn and Mercury) orbits a star.
What is a planet?
The inner planets have this kind of surface.
What is solid and rocky?
A star and the objects that circle around it are called this.
What is a solar system?
This space telescope has sent incredible images from space to Earth.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This chunk of ice, dust and rock orbits the sun with a long, glowing tail.
What is a comet?
The outer planets have this nickname because of their size and surface.
What is "gas giants"?
Pluto, Ceres, and Eris are examples of this.
What are dwarf planets?
What planets have been explored using probes?
What is all of the planets in our solar system?
This natural satellite orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Any object in space that circles around another object is called this.
What is a satellite?
This type of unmanned space craft is used to explore places in space that are too dangerous for humans.
What is a probe?
This space rock has entered Earth's atmosphere and is sometimes called a "shooting star."
What is a meteor?
These are the inner planets in order going out from the sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
Most asteroids are found between these 2 planets.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
Give 3 examples of how satellites are used.
What is...
for TV, radio, GPS, weather (many others)
This irregular shaped rock that sometimes looks like a potato moves around the Sun.
What is an asteroid?
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
This is the name of the space cloud where stars form.
What is a nebula?