The Sun
Earth
The Inner Planets
The Gas Giants
The Moon
100
The sun is this type of celestial object.
What is a star?
100
Earth is the only planet in the solar system that supports this.
What is life?
100
Now that Pluto has been demoted, there are this many planets.
What is 8 planets?
100
This is the largest of all the planets.
What is Jupiter?
100
It takes this long for the moon to orbit the Earth.
What is 1 month?
200
The sun is made of this.
What is burning gases?
200
The Earth's surface is mostly covered by this.
What is water?
200
This is the planet closest in size to the Earth and sometimes called our sister planet.
What is Venus?
200
This is the acronym for the four gas giants.
What is JSUN? (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus)
200
When the moon is directly between the Earth and the sun, it is in this phase.
What is New Moon?
300
The sun is 93 million miles or this many kilometers away from the Earth.
What is 150 million kilometers?
300
It takes the Earth this long to rotate on its axis.
What is 24 hours?
300
This inner planet is closest to the sun and the smallest planet.
What is Mercury?
300
This planet is known for its rings.
What is Saturn?
300
These missions by Nasa explored the moon.
What are the Apollo missions?
400
The ancients thought the sun revolved around this.
What is the Earth?
400
It takes the Earth this long to make one revolution around the sun.
What is 365 days or 1 year?
400
This red planet was recently explored by a robotic "dune buggy" about the size of a golf cart.
What is Mars?
400
This planet rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
400
This word means the moon is building toward full illumination.
What is waxing?
500
The sun is this special state of matter.
What is a plasma?
500
Earth is the largest of this group of planets.
What are the terrestrial or inner planets?
500
This separates the inner and outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
500
This is the reason you can't land on a gas giant.
What is the fact that they are made entirely of gas.
500
This is the main characteristic the Earth and Moon have in common.
What is a rocky surface?
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