The Sun
Moons
Small Bodies in Our Solar System
The Inner Planets
The Outer Planets
100
The centre of the sun
What is the core?
100
What two planets do not have Moons?
Venus and Mercury
100
Where the asteroid belt is located.
What is between the terrestrial planets and gas giants OR between Mars and Jupiter.
100
The Inner Planets are also known as what group of planets.
What are Terrestrial?
100
Name the planet:
What is Saturn?
200
The outermost layer of the sun's interior, where hot gases rise from the bottom and gradually cool and sink as they get to the top.
What is the convection zone.
200
The darker regions on the moon that show regions where objects have collided with it.
What are craters?
200
A small loosely packed body of ice, rock and dust that has an ion tail.
What is a comet.
200
This planet maintains a temperature of 474 degrees Celsius at all times due to it's thick and volatile atmosphere.
What is Venus.
200
Neptune is this colour due to Methane in it's atmosphere.
What is blue?
300
The outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere. It is visible as a faint glow during a solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
300
True or False. Gas Giants have less moons than the Terrestrial Planets.
What is False?
300
A shooting star occurs when these form glowing trails by burning up in the upper atmosphere.
What is a meteor.
300
This planet has an atmosphere that supports life.
What is Earth
300
This planet rotates on it's side, which means half the year it is in sunlight and half is in darkness.
What is Uranus?
400
When solar wind interacts with the Earth's upper atmosphere it causes this light phenomenon in the sky.
What is Aurora?
400
The time period in which the moon orbits the Earth.
What is 1 month or 27 days?
400
A small rocky body that revolve around the sun; they range in size from a few meters to 1000 km in diameter.
What is an asteroid.
400
Mars is red due to this mineral in it's crust.
What is iron oxide.
400
When Galileo looked through his telescope he saw moons from this planet.
What is Jupiter?
500
The sun's this causes the whole solar system to be protected from harmful gamma radiation
What is magnetic field?
500
This kind of eclipse happens when the moon comes between the Sun and Earth. Causing the moon's shadow to fall on Earth.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
500
When a meteoroid reaches Earth's surface, they are called this.
What is a meteorite?
500
Like Earth, Mercury has this kind of core, making it the second densest object in our Solar System, next to Earth.
What is an Iron Core?
500
True or False: On average, Gas Giants period of rotation are much faster than terrestrial planets.
What is True.