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The Moon
Motion of The Planets
Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoriods
The Planets and Their Moons
Gravity and Formation in the Solar System
100
The amount of time it takes for the Moon to revolve around the Earth.
What is 28 days.
100
The imaginary line through the center of a planet.
What is Axes of Rotation.
100
Rocky objects that are smaller than planets and are found in the between orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is Asteroids.
100
The term used for the four closest planets to the Sun.
What is inner planets.
100
The reason Earth stays in orbit.
What is gravity.
200
The term used to describe the Moon getting lighter.
What is Waxing.
200
The word used to describe the time it takes for one rotation.
What is Period of Rotation.
200
A small, icy body in orbit around the Sun.
What is Comets.
200
The term used for the planets beyond the inner planets.
What is outer planets.
200
The law that proved that the gravitational force gets strongest as the objects get closer.
What is Law of Universal Gravitation.
300
When the Moon is in the Earth's shadow.
What is a Lunar Eclipse.
300
The time it takes for Venus to go around it's period of Rotation.
What is 243 days.
300
Solid, interplanetary particles passing through Earth's atmosphere.
What is Meteoroids.
300
The term for Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.
What is Galilean Moons.
300
The giant cloud of dust and gas before our solar system.
What is a Nebula.
400
The age of the Moon.
What is 4.5 billion years.
400
The term used to describe the time for a planet to move completely around the Sun.
What is Period of Revolution.
400
The place where most asteroids are found.
What is Asteroid belt.
400
A giant storm that is three times the size of Earth.
What is Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
400
The cause of matter to clump together in the forming of the solar system.
What is gravity.
500
The different appearances of the Moon as it orbits Earth.
What is lunar phases.
500
The amount of planets that can rotate around their axes in 24 hours or less.
What is 6 planets.
500
The term that i used to describe the remaining portion of a meteoroid when it reaches Earth's surface.
What is Meteorite.
500
The hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury.
500
The force that keeps the planet from getting pulled closer to the Sun.
What is velocity of the planet.