The Planets
What is Mercury?
Earth is this ordinal number, or the ____ planet away from the sun. It is also the grade in which you are in.
What is third.
The system of a sun and the objects that move around it.
What is the Solar System?
The Earth's moon has this many phases.
What is 8?
Who is Alan Shepard?
What is Pluto?
Earth is the largest this type of planet.
Earth is the largest of the ______ planets.
What is rocky?
The path planets make around the sun is called.
What is an orbit?
This phase of the moon is when we can see the entire half of the moon lit up.
What is a full moon?
Galileo built this that was strong enough to study the sky.
What is a telescope.
What is Neptune.
This gas is what humans living on Earth breathe and plants give off.
What is oxygen?
The imaginary line that runs through the center of the earth on which it rotates.
What is its axis?
Two phases of the moon are described as having a curved sickle appearance, also known as a delicious Pillsbury roll.
What is a crescent?
Earth takes this long to make a complete rotation on its axis.
What is 1 day, or 24 hours.
Name 2 of the 4 planets that are known as "Gas Giants" and are the largest planets in our solar system.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? *Only need to name 2 of the 4.
The tilt of the Earth along with rotating around the sun causes us to have _______ seasons. Name them.
What is four: spring, summer, fall, winter.
An artificial body placed in orbit around the Earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.
What is a satellite?
One of two phases of the moon where half of the visible part of the moon is lit, also known as a US currency worth 25 cents.
What is a quarter?
The first satellite launched into space was known as...
What is Explorer 1?
In the planets song, this sentence is used to help you remember the order of the planets.
What is My Very Evil Mother Just Swatted Uncle's Nose?
This Force holds us down on Earth.
What is gravity?
The study of the stars and the planets.
What is Astronomy?
This phase of the moon is when there appears to be NO moon due to the half that's facing away from Earth being lit up.
What is a New Moon?
This gigantic telescope still orbits Earth above the clouds and takes photographs of the stars and other planets. Please give all 3 words in the name.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope.