Random Vocabulary
Planets
A/C/M
Special Planet Earth
Miscellaneous Facts
100
What is Astronomical Units?
100
The eighth planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
100
Small objects made of rock or metal that orbits the Sun. Can be connected to causing the extinction of dinosaurs.
What is an asteroid?
100
Earth's major source of heat and light comes from this
What is the Sun?
100
This separates the inner planets from the outer planets
What is the asteroid belt?
200
a smaller spherical object in space, that resembles a small planet but lacks certain technical criteria required to be classified as such.
What are Dwarf Planets?
200
The hottest planet in the solar system, due to the greenhouse effect.
What is Venus?
200
Objects in space that have entered a planet’s atmosphere that burn due to traveling at high speeds.
What is a meteor?
200
The position Earth is from the Sun.
What is 3rd?
200
The number of planets in our solar system with no moons.
What is two?
300
What is Revolution?
300
The planet with the greatest temperature range.
What is Mercury?
300
Cosmic snowballs of frozen gasses, rock and dust that orbit the Sun.
What are Comets?
300
The phase of matter that water must exist to sustain life as we know it.
What is Liquid?
300
Consisting of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all of which have thick atmospheres and no solid outer layer of their planet
What are the Gas Giant Planets?
400
What is rotation?
400
The only planet to rotate on its side.
What is Uranus?
400
A small, rocky or metallic object that orbits the sun in space.
What is a Meteoroids?
400
The region of space that the Earth is located allowing for liquid water to exist.
What is the goldilocks zone?
400
Consisting of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars all of which have solid rocky surfaces.
What are the Terrestrial planets?
500
What is Orbit?
500
This planet is the 5th planet from the Sun
What is Jupiter?
500
A rock that has fallen to Earth from space.
What is a Meteorite?
500
The many layers of gases that surround and protect Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
500
Everything in our Solar System is held together by this.
What is the Sun's Gravitational Pull?