It takes this long for Earth to spin once on its axis
What is a day (24 hours)?
The first planet from the sun
What is Mercury?
The shape of each planet's orbital path
What is an ellipse?
The theory to explain how the universe began
What is the Big Bang Theory?
A logic puzzle that only uses the numbers 1 through 9
What is sudoku?
It takes this long for the Earth to revolve around the Sun
What is a year (365 days)?
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
This causes our four seasons
Large bodies that revolve around a star in a solar system
What are planets?
Where Ms. Glover spent her early childhood
What is Anchorage, Alaska?
This is how far Earth is from the Sun
What is one Astronomical Unit (93 million miles)?
The hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
The Earth is tilted this many degrees from vertical
What is 23.5 degrees?
A celestial body that revolves around a planet
What is a moon?
The number of millions you would need to make 1 billion
What is 1,000?
This planet is similar in size to Earth
What is Venus?
Known as the red planet
What is Mars?
This astronomer developed three laws about the eccentricity of the planets' orbits
Who is (Johannes) Kepler?
A star and the group of celestial bodies held by its gravitational pull
What is a solar system?
The murderer of the trapeze artist, Talia
Who is Mazie?
What is Terrestrial planets?
The two planets that border the Asteroid Belt
What are Mars and Jupiter?
These objects have highly elliptical orbits and tails
What is a comet?
A dark place where nothing can escape
What is a black hole?
The time that has passed since Earth first formed
What is 4.6 BILLION years?