The Sun
Moons
Earth
Asteroids
Jovian Planets
100

The Sun is composed primarily of this gas.

What is hydrogen?

100

Of rock or ice, it is what the moons of the Jovian planets are primarily composed of.

What is ice?

100

To within half a billion years, this is the age of the Earth.

What is 4.5 billion years?

100

The Asteroid Belt lies between these two planets.

What are Mars and Jupiter?

100

It's the planet with the lowest density. (Give me a ring when you figure it out!)

What is Saturn?

200

The name for the "surface" of the Sun. Its temperature is about 5800 K.

What is the photosphere?

200

It is believed to have formed when a Mars-sized planetesimal collided with the early Earth.

What is the Earth's moon?

200

The primary constituent of Earth's atmosphere.

What is nitrogen?

200
Of M, S, and C, this letter is the most common type of asteroid.

What is C-type (carbonaceous)?

200

The colorful name of the giant, persistent storm system on Jupiter?

What is the Great Red Spot?

300

The Solar Cycle, the period of activity of sunspots and magnetic field change on the Sun, lasts about this many years on average.

What is 11?

300

One of the Galilean satellites, it is the largest moon in the Solar System - even having a radius bigger than that of Mercury.

What is Ganymede?

300

Of the two types of Earth's crust, this type has the higher density.

What is Oceanic crust?

300

If you combined all the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, the total mass would be about a third the mass of this familar object.

What is the Moon? (Earth's moon)

300

The smallest of the Jovian planets, it is still nearly 15 times the mass of the Earth.

What is Uranus? (and I hope that you pronounced it correctly)

400

Hot gas erupted from flares hangs in these coffee-mug-handle-shaped features.

What are prominences?

400

This moon of Jupiter is the most geologically-active body in the Solar System.

What is Io?

400

There are this many types of plate boundary activity.

What is 4? (rift zones, subduction zones, fault zones, and collisions)

400

This population of asteroids orbit the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter, but at locations "before" and "after" Jupiter. It's all Greek to me!

What are the Trojans?

400

Rotation of hurricanes on Earth is a result of this effect, which also explains atmospheric features on Jupiter.

What is the Coriolis Effect?

500

This British researcher in charge of radar efforts in WWII determined that sunspot activity was associated with radio emission.

Who was Hey? (Hey. James Stanley Hey. Shaken, not stirred.)

500

This largest moon of Saturn has a thick nitrogen atmosphere.

What is Titan?

500
For a planet like Earth to have aurorae, it must have these two things.

What are a magnetic field and an atmosphere?

500

It's the largest asteroid, and was briefly considered a planet in the mid-1800s.

What is Ceres?

500

The only man-made satellite to have passed by both Uranus and Neptune and collect images and other data.

What is Voyager 2?