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Earth
Sun and Stars
Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Other Objects in Space
100
One whole spin of an object on its axis.
What is a rotation?
100
These are gigantic balls of very hot gases. The sun is one of these.
What is a star?
100
These are the inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
These are the outer planets.
What Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
100
A rocky mass that revolves around the sun.
What is an asteroid?
200
One full orbit of an object around another object. The Earth does this around the sun.
What is a revolution?
200
The photoshere, chromosphere, and corona are all these.
What are layers of the sun?
200
The inner planets have this kind of surface.
What is rocky?
200
The outer planets have a surface made of this.
What is gas?
200
These are often called "shooting stars".
What is a meteor?
300
This causes day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
300
A group of stars that forms a pattern.
What is a constellation?
300
The hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Venus?
300
The outer planets are also called this.
What are the gaseous giants?
300
These are made of ice and dust. They orbit the sun.
What is a comet?
400
This causes the seasons.
What is Earth's revolution around the sun AND the tilt of the Earth's axis.
400
An explosive eruption of waves and particles into space on the surface of the sun. It appears as a bright spot on the Sun's surface.
What is a solar flare?
400
This force holds the planets in their orbits.
What is the gravity of the sun?
400
This planet rotates on it's side.
What is Uranus?
400
A large, round object that orbits the sun but has not "cleared the region around its orbit".
What is a dwarf planet?
500
This is the day with the shortest amount of daylight all year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
500
A dark spot on the surface of the sun.
What is a sunspot?
500
This planet is called "the red planet" due to it's reddish appearance.
What is Mars?
500
This planet has the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
500
A natural object that orbits a bigger body than itself.
What is a moon?