Earth
Planets
Orbits and Effects
The Universe
Wild Card
100

It takes this long for Earth to spin once on its axis

What is a day (24 hours)?

100

The first planet from the sun

What is Mercury?

100

The shape of each planet's orbital path

What is an ellipse?

100

The theory to explain how the universe began

What is the Big Bang Theory?

100

A logic puzzle that only uses the numbers 1 through 9

What is sudoku?

200

It takes this long for the Earth to revolve around the Sun

What is a year (365 days)?

200

The largest planet in our solar system

What is Jupiter?

200

This causes our four seasons

What is the tilt of the Earth?
200

Large bodies that revolve around a star in a solar system

What are planets?

200

Where Ms. Glover spent her early childhood

What is Anchorage, Alaska?

300

This is how far Earth is from the Sun

What is one Astronomical Unit (93 million miles)?

300

The hottest planet in our solar system

What is Venus?

300

The Earth is tilted this many degrees from vertical

What is 23.5 degrees?

300

A celestial body that revolves around a planet

What is a moon?

300

The number of millions you would need to make 1 billion

What is 1,000?

400

This planet is similar in size to Earth

What is Venus?

400

Known as the red planet

What is Mars?

400

This astronomer developed three laws about the eccentricity of the planets' orbits

Who is (Johannes) Kepler?

400

A star and the group of celestial bodies held by its gravitational pull 

What is a solar system?

400

The murderer of the trapeze artist, Talia

Who is Mazie?

500
Another name for an Inner Planet

What is Terrestrial planets?

500

The two planets that border the Asteroid Belt

What are Mars and Jupiter?

500

These objects have highly elliptical orbits and tails

What is a comet?

500

A dark place where nothing can escape

What is a black hole?

500

The time that has passed since Earth first formed

What is 4.6 BILLION years?