Planets
The only planet known to support life.
What is Earth?
This is the closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
Our solar system is located in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
The universe began with this event approximately 13.8 billion years ago.
What is the Big Bang?
Life as we know it is based mainly on this chemical element. (We are ____ based life forms).
What is Carbon?
This planet has the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
This type of star is the final stage of a massive star’s life and is incredibly dense and made of only one type of subatomic particle, and not a black hole.
What is a neutron star?
This neighboring galaxy is expected to collide with the Milky Way in about 4 billion years.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
This term describes the mysterious force causing the universe to expand.
What is Dark Energy?
The region around a star where liquid water can exist on a planet’s surface.
What is the Habitable zone?
This planet rotates on its side compared to others.
What is Uranus?
The color of the hottest stars.
What is blue?
A galaxy with no clear shape is classified as this type.
What is an irregular galaxy?
The two main components of the universe are matter and this. (Einstein's famous equation).
What is energy?
The Search for ExtraTerrestrIal life is known by this acronym.
SETI
This is the hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
A star’s brightness as seen from Earth is called this.
What is Apparent Magnitude?
The largest type of galaxy, often containing trillions of stars.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
This term describes matter that does not emit light but has gravitational effects.
What is Dark Matter?
This spacecraft carried a golden record with messages from Earth for extraterrestrial life.
What is Voyager?
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
A small, dense remnant of a medium-sized star, like what our Star the Sun will turn into.
What is a white dwarf?
This type of galaxy has arms that wind outward in a pinwheel shape.
What is a spiral galaxy?
This is the fastest speed anything can travel.
What is the speed of light?
This molecule is essential for life and carries genetic information.
What is DNA?