This is a large, round body that revolves around a star...
A. comet
B. asteroid
C. moon
D. planet
What is a planet?
100
Which planet is the largest in diameter?
A. Saturn
B. Jupiter
C. Mars
D. Neptune
What is Jupiter?
100
"Pluto was once called a planet. But in 2006, it was reclassified as a _______________."
A. asteroid
B. dwarf planet
C. comet
D. moon
What is a dwarf planet?
100
These are pieces of rock that break off of asteroids and travel through space...
A. comet
B. Meteor
C. Meteoroids
D. Meteorites
What are meteoroids?
100
Rocks that reach Earth's surface are known as...
A. Comets
B. Meteors
C. Meteoroids
D. Meteorites
What is a meteorite?
200
This planet is the closest to the sun...
A. Mercury
B. Venus
C. Earth
D. Mars
What is Mercury?
200
This is made up of a star and the planets and other space objects that revolve around it...
A. planet
B. asteroid belt
C. solar system
D. comet
What is the solar system?
200
These are rock and iron objects that orbit the sun...
A. comet
B. asteroid
C. meteor
D. meteorite
What is an asteroid?
200
These rocks burn up in earth's atmosphere, causing a streak of light...
A. Meteoroid
B. Meteor
C. Comet
D. Meteorite
What is a meteor?
200
This object is a chunk of frozen gases, rock, ice, and dust...
A. Comet
B. Meteor
C. Meteorite
D. Asteroid
What is a comet?
300
This is a giant cloud of gas and dust...
A. nebula
B. galaxy
C. star
D. dust ball
What is a nebula?
300
This is the study of objects in space and their characteristics...
A. Herbology
B. Spaceology
C. Astronomy
D. Star Gazing
What is Astronomy?
300
These objects are huge balls of hot, glowing gases that produce their own heat and light...
A. comets
B. Astros
C. stars
D. nebulas
What is stars?
300
This is a group of billions of stars, the objects that orbit the stars, gas, and dust...
A. galaxy
B. asteroid belt
C. milky way
D. universe
What is a galaxy?
300
This is everything that exists...
A. Planet Life
B. Galaxies
C. Universe
D. Galactic
What is the Universe?
400
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On your paper, list the 4 galaxies that belong...
Spiral
Spinning
Sidewinder
Barred
Slanted
Slitted
Regular
Irregular
Cosmic
Elliptical
What is spiral, barred, irregular, and elliptical?
400
Earth is a part of the....
A. spiral galaxy
B. milky way galaxy
C. barred galaxy
D. irregular galaxy
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
400
Which planets take longer to orbit the sun?
A. The inner planets
B. The outer planets
C. Moons
D. Comets
What is the outer planets?
400
Finish this sentence, "The Earth___________ around the sun."
A. spins
B. twists
C. rotates
D. revolves
What is revolves?
400
A year on Earths is equivalent to one ____________ around the sun."
A. Loop
B. Rotation
C. Revolution
D. Trip
What is revolution?
500
Galaxies are composed of may different objects. What kind of objects make up the most visible matter in a galaxy?
A. asteroids
B. planets
C. dust
D. stars
What is stars?
500
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List the inner planets, starting with the one closest to the sun...
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
500
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Which of the 2 groups of planets have:
gaseous surfaces
giant size
rings
many moons
low density
longer revolutions
What is the outer planets?
500
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Which of the 2 groups of planets have:
small and dense
rocky surface
few moons
closest to the sun
What is the inner planets?
500
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List the outer planets in order, starting with the one closest to the sun...