Astronauts
Vocabulary
Planets
Comets and Asteroids
Our Place
100
Who is the first man in space?
Yuri Gagarin
100
Process inside a star that produces light.
Fusion
100
The number of planets in our solar system
What is eight?
100
Dirty snowballs that orbit around the sun and have two tails.
What are Comets?
100
Third Rock from the sun
What is the Earth?
200
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
200
Means "Sun Centered".
What is "Heliocentric"?
200
The closest planet to us with a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, volcanoes, mountains, and valleys.
What is Venus?
200
A space rock that burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
200
Solar System
What is where the planet is located?
300
What was the name of the mission that got to the moon, but didn't get to land because of technical problems?
Apollo 13
300
The theory that states our system came from a cloud of gas and dust where the particles collided and spun around, flattening out like a pizza and the particles collided to form planets.
What is the "Solar Nebula Theory"?
300
The largest planet in our solar system with a giant red storm.
What is Jupiter
300
The solar wind pushes it away from the sun no matter the direction the object is moving.
What is a comet's tail?
300
The galaxy that the solar system is inside.
What is the Milky Way?
400
What is Jim Lovell's famous call to Houston?
400
Sun, Moon, Earth
What are the conditions necessary for a Solar Ecplise?
400
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
What are the terrestrial/rocky/inner planets?
400
Large space rocks floating in orbit around the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
400
Collection of billions of galaxies that have billions of stars.
What is the universe?
500
The first living creature in space.
What is Laika the Dog?
500
Sun, Earth, Moon
What are the conditions for a Lunar Eclipse?
500
Olympus Mons
What is the largest volcano in the solar system on mars?
500
Meteorite
What is a meteor that hit Earth's surface?
500
The theory that describes how our universe was created.
What is the Big Bang?