The Moon
Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets
Stars
Solar System
Planetary Features
100
This is when the moon is entirely filled with light.

What is a full moon?

100

Space rocks must be smaller than this to be considered meteors.

What is 10 meters?

100

These are often called "star nurseries".

What are nebulae?

100

This is the largest planet in the solar system.

What is Jupiter?

100

This determines the day/night cycle of a planet.

What is rotation?

200

When the light is on the left of the moon, it is called this.

What is waning?

200

This area of the solar system is where you would expect to find asteroids.

What is the asteroid belt?

200

This type of star is usually at the center of a planetary nebula.

What is a red giant?

200

This planet is sometimes called Earth's twin or Earth's sister.

What is Venus?

200

This can also be called a planet's orbital period.

What is revolution?

300

When the Earth casts a shadow on the moon, this astronomical event happens.

What is a lunar eclipse?

300

This is otherwise referred to as a "dirty snowball".

What is a comet?

300

This is the process in stars where they take on element and combine it to form another element.

What is fusion?

300

These are the two ice giants of the solar system.

What are Uranus and Neptune?

300

This is the area of a star system where liquid water can be found and, therefore, life is possible.

What is the habitable zone or Goldilocks zone?

400

This is how many days it takes for the moon to go through a full cycle.

What is 29.5 days?

400
During the last mass extinction event, this struck the Earth and killed all the dinosaurs.

What is an asteroid or a comet?

400

These are the densest stars in the universe, some having the mass of the sun but the size of Earth.

What are white dwarfs?

400

This planet's gravitational pull is responsible for the solar system not having a ninth planet where the asteroid belt currently sits.

What is Jupiter?

400

This is the reason planets sometimes look like they're moving towards or away from Earth.

What is all planets orbit the sun?

500

We only see one side of the moon from Earth because of this quality of the moon.

What is tidally locked?

500

These are the two places comets can be found in the solar system.

What are the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt?

500

Red giant undergo fusion of this element in order to build this second element.

What are helium and carbon?

500

This is the order of the planets in the solar system from smallest to largest.

What is Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter?

500

This is the main feature of Venus that makes it hotter than Mercury even though it's farther from the sun.

What is a dense atmosphere?