Sun
Inner Planets
Gas Giants
Earth
General Information
100
The closest star to Earth.
What is the sun.
100
What inner planet is called the water planet?
What is Earth.
100
Name one of the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (name one).
100
Earth is the only known planet in our solar system to have what?
What is life.
100
Which celestial body was formally a planet?
What is Pluto.
200
True or False...The Sun's surface is called the photosphere.
What is true.
200
Name the four inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
200
Which gas giant has a big red spot?
What is Jupiter?
200
How long is a day on Earth?
What is 24 hours.
200
What is the fourth planet from the sun?
What is Mars.
300
Within a billion years, how many billion years old is the sun?
What is 4.6 billion years. 3 1/2 to 5 /12 billion years will be acceptable.
300
Which inner planet is called "Earth's Twin"?
What is Venus.
300
What is unique about Saturn, different from other planets?
What are rings.
300
How long does it take for Earth to complete an orbit around the sun?
What is 365 (1/4) days.
300
Would a year be longer on Mercury or Jupiter and why?
What is Jupiter - Jupiter is further away from the sun so it takes longer to go around the sun.
400
How many minutes to we see sunlight after it leaves the sun?
What is eight minutes.
400
Which inner planet's day is only 88 days?
What is Mercury.
400
Name one of the two gases that make up Saturn.
What is helium (or hydrodgen).
400
Earth is an ___________ planet.
What is an ocean planet?
400
What are rocky and airless worlds that are too small to be planets that are found in our solar system?
What are asteroids.
500
During a solar eclipse, what covers the sun?
What is our moon?
500
Which inner planet has two moons, Phobos and Deimos?
What is Mars.
500
Which gas giant has supersonic winds?
What is Neptune.
500
How many seasons are there on Earth?
What are four.
500
Which planet is the only gas giant whose equator is nearly at right angles?
What is Uranus.
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