The Solar System
The Earth
Orbit and Spin
100

The name of our solar system

Milky Way

100

The German word meaning "the ground"

Earth

100

Number of days to go around the sun

365 days/365.25 days
200

The farthest planet from the sun

Neptune

200

The age of the Earth

4.5 billion/4.6 billion years old

200

Earth is divided into two ________

Hemispheres

300

The planet, besides Earth, that once contained water

Mars

300

The reason why Earth bulges out at the equator

Gravity

300

The definition of orbit

The path Earth takes around the sun

400

The cause of the Grand Canyon

Erosion

400

The reason why the Earth have seasons

Earth's axis does not run straight up and down in relation to the sun/tilt of the Earth's axis

400

The relation of the Moon to the Earth

A natural satellite

500

The order of planets in order from closets to farthest to the sun

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

500

The era when the Atlantic Ocean was formed

Mesozoic era, a division of the Phanerozoic era

500

When its Winter, this [part of Earth] is farthest from the sun

North Pole