Planets Please
The Solar System and The Sun
Gravity-Hold Me Down!
Who is that Astronomer?
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors, Oh My!
100
The largest planet in our solar system and the Great Red Spot is located here
What is Jupiter?
100
The distance from Earth to the Sun is ... (one of these was equal to 10 cm for the solar system models)
What is 1 AU (Astronomical Unit)?
100
The path of a planet
What is orbit?
100
The first person to say that the Sun was in the center of our solar system. Before him people believed the Geocentric model for ~1350 years.
Who is Copernicus?
100
An object in space made from ice and dust is called-
What is a comet?
200
I use to be number nine, now they call me a dwarf planet
What is Pluto?
200
This object is made of 75% Hydrogen and 25% Helium. It produces light and heat through nuclear fusion. It is a STAR.
What is the Sun? 
200
The tendency of a moving object to continue in a straight line. An object in motion stays in motion.
What is inertia
200
Greek scientist who agreed with Aristotle (believed the Geocentric model). He also said the planets rotate on their axis (epicycles)
Who is Ptolemy?
200
When a meteoroid is still in space it is called
What is meteoroid?
300
These planets are REALLY big, being mostly made up of gas
What are outer planets?
300
These objects orbit the Sun (there is more than just one answer)
What are planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and meteroids ?
300
We are two factors that work to keep the planets in orbit.
What is gravity and inertia?
300
He is the most recent astronomer we talked about. He believed the Heliocentric model and proved it using mathematical phyics
Who is Kepler?
300
Asteroids have their own special place in our solar system called the
What is the Asteroid Belt?
400
Name the planets in order from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
400
This object orbits the Sun, is not a moon, is round (or almost round) and has NOT cleared its neighborhood
What is a dwarf planet?
400
This force that pulls on objects (my hand in the keychain demo).
What is gravity?
400
This scientist believed that Earth was at the center of the solar system. He was the first scientist to talk about our solar system
Who is Aristotle?
400
A comet has a very , orbit (or eclipse).
What is long and narrow?
500
Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars
What are the Inner planets?
500
The sun, moon, planets, asteroids, and comets all make up our -
What is the Solar System?
500
The shape of this orbit is known as
What is an elliptical orbit or eclipse?
500
First to use a telescope to study the sky. He believed in the Heliocentric model and proved it using the telescope.
What is Galileo?
500
This object is smaller than a planet but still can be as big as a room or a city
What is an asteroid?