Home of the tallest mountain or volcano in the solar system. There are two robot rovers we sent there. It is known as the "red" planet.
What is Mars?
100
This astronomer created a system where we believed that Earth was the center of the universe. He also invented epicycles to explain the motions of planets.
Who is Ptolemy?
100
The first country to launch an artificial satellite into orbit around the Earth.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
The Asteroid Belt is located between these two planets.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
100
This planet has the most gravity. In related news, it has the most moons, last counted at 63.
What is Jupiter?
200
This planet has a huge storm on it taking place in a giant red spot.
What is Jupiter?
200
Famous Polish astronomer that proposed the Sun was at the center (and that the Earth revolved around it).
Who is Copernicus?
200
The first astronaut on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
200
This space object is known as a "dirty snowball."
What is a comet?
200
For over 1000 years, humans thought the Earth was the center of the universe. We now know the Sun is at the center of ________ which is located in the Milky Way _______ which is located in the __________. Put the blanks in the correct size order.
What is the solar system, galaxy, and universe?
300
This planet has polar ice caps.
What is Mars?
300
He took a telescope and turned it toward the sky to prove that the Earth and all the other planets orbit the Sun. He then publicized his findings, for which he was placed under house arrest.
Who is Galileo?
300
The United States president that launched a huge space program with the objective of putting a man on the moon in less than 10 years.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
300
This planet has a poisonous atmosphere made of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid.
What is Venus?
300
The number of planets in the solar system.
What is 8?
400
The planet that takes the shortest time to orbit the sun. (Don't say the planet's name for your response, instead say, "What is the planet _________ to the ____ ?"
What is the planet closest to the sun?
400
This astronomer developed a big idea that explains why all the planets are kept in orbit around the sun.
Who is Newton?
400
The first human to orbit the Earth's name and country.
Who is Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union?
400
List the planets correctly in order from smallest to largest.
What is Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter?
400
This planet has hundreds of rings made of chunks of ice and rock.
What is Saturn?
500
Earth's twin.
What is Venus?
500
Accidentally, he invented the telescope.
Who is Lippershey?
500
Planets in our solar system that we have not sent a satellite or probe to from Earth.
What is no planets?
500
Where we would find metorites, meteroids, and meteors.
What is in space? (meteoroids)
What is passing through our atmosphere? (meteors)
What is on a planet's surface? (meteorite)
500
Name of the astronomer that identified a comet (and its orbit around the Sun) which we can see again in 2062. (It passes the Earth once every 76 years and was last here in 1986.)