Planets
Stars
Space Stuff
Vocabulary
This and That
100
How many planets are there?
What is 8
100
What is a star?
What is a burning ball of gas
100
What type of telescope has a mirror?
What is a reflecting telescope
100
What do we call a group of stars that form a pattern?
What is a constellation
100
What holds a star together?
What is gravity
200
What planet most resembles Earth?
What is mars
200
What color are the hottest stars?
What is blue
200
What object in the sky is made of ice and rock?
What is a comet
200
Anything that orbits another object
What is a stellite
200
Why does Mars look red?
What is iron in the soil
300
What is the largest planet?
What is Jupiter
300
What star was often used for navigation by early sailors?
What is Polaris
300
What do we call a piece of space rock that makes it through the Earth's atmosphere?
What is a meteorite
300
The Earth's path around the sun is called this?
What is revolution
300
What causes the tail of the comet to point away from the sun?
What is solar wind
400
What planet is known for its Great Red Spot?
What is Jupiter
400
What do we call a dim star?
What is a white dwarf
400
What separates the inner planets from the outer planets?
What is the asteroid belt
400
How our solar system was created
What is the big bang theory
400
What causes Uranus to appear blueish green?
What is methane gas
500
Name two planets with rings.
What is Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter
500
A dead star is known as what?
What is a black dwarf
500
The path of the Earth is what shape?
What is an ellipse
500
The explosion of a star
What is a supernova
500
The Big Dipper is part of what major constellation?
What is Ursa Major
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