Planets
Orbits
Bits and Pieces that go 'round
Planets and other bodies
Looner Toons
100

The largest planet in the Solar System

What is Jupiter?

100

This means "the turning of a planet on its axis"

What is Rotation?

100

They create bright streaks in the night sky as they burn up while passing through the Earth's atmosphere

What are Meteors?

100

This is the farthest "true" planet from the Sun

What is Neptune?

100

The Moon's diameter is this fraction of the Earth's

What is one quarter?

200

The planets located to the inside of the Asteroid Belt, closest to the sun

What are the Terrestrial Planets?

200

This means "movement of one body in an orbit around another"

What is Revolution?

200

Chunks of space rock that manage to get through the Earth's atmosphere and crash to the ground

What are Meteorites?

200

As these bodies approach the sun in their orbits, they grow these

What are Comet Tails?

200

This is about how long it takes for the Moon to make a trip around the Earth

What is 27.3 days?

300

It has seasons, like Earth does

What is Mars?

300

Earth has only one natural one

What is Satellite?

300

These icy objects make their way around the sun in very elongated paths

What are comets?

300

The new category given to Pluto and many other objects

What is a Dwarf Planet

300

The name of what were originally thought to be Oceans on the moon?

What is Mare (Maria plural)?

400

These two planets have ring systems

What are Saturn and Uranus?

400

This planet takes the least time to make a trip around the sun

What is Mercury?

400

Irregularly shaped and sized chunks whose pathway around the sun is mostly confined to a region between Mars and Jupiter

What are Asteroids?

400

Earth's very hot neighbor, the 2nd rock from the Sun

What is Venus?

400

These lunar features have been caused impacts of space rocks (meteoroids)

What are Craters?

500

This planet's density is so low that it could float in a bathtub (if you could find one big enough)

What is Saturn?

500

The shape of orbital paths around the sun

What is an ellipse?

500

Remnants of comets show up as these predictable spectacles in the night sky, notably the Perseids in August

What are Meteor Showers?

500

Liquid water has been discovered here

What is Mars?

500

No weather occurs on the moon because this doesn't exist around it

What is an Atmosphere?