Planets
Moons
Space Objects
Tides/Seasons
Vocabulary
100
The amount of planets in our Solar System.
Eight.
100

The biggest moon in the Solar System.

Ganymede

100

A large ball of ice and rock with a tail and a head called a coma.

Comet

100

The moon phase where the whole moon is visible.

Full Moon

100

Shape of an orbit

Ellipse

200

The two Gas Giants.

Jupiter and Saturn

200

The planet with the most moons in the Solar System.

Saturn

200
The name of our galaxy.

Milky Way

200

The Earth's seasons are influenced by the tilt on its _____.

Axis
200

Tendency of an object to remain traveling in a straight line.

Inertia

300

The largest and smallest planet in the Solar System.

Jupiter and Mercury

300

The Earth's moon has a large role in these on the planet.

Tides

300

Examples of this include Pluto and Ceres.

Dwarf Planet

300

The amount of low and high tides per day.

Two

300

Belief that the Sun and other planets revolve around the Earth.

Geocentrism
400

The planets in order from the Sun.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

400
A moon always orbits around this.

A planet.

400

Between which planets is the Asteroid Belt located?

Mars and Jupiter

400

What is an equinox?

Equal amounts of daylight and darkness in one day.

400

This occurs when the Earth is in between the Moon and the Sun.

Lunar Eclipse

500
The biggest terrestrial planet.

Earth

500

The two planets in the Solar System with zero moons.

Mercury and Venus.

500

The difference between a meteor and meteorite.

A meteor becomes a meteorite once it enters the Earth's atmosphere.

500
What is a solstice?

The day of the year where there is either the least amount of light or most amount. (summer and winter solstices)

500

Attractive force between two objects.

Gravity