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Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Asteroid/Comet/Stars
Chart Talk
Interesting Facts
100
This planet is the hottest planet, extra point if you can tell me what it is made of.
What is Venus? Made of Sulfuric Acid.
100
This is the biggest planet in our Solar System.
What is Jupiter?
100
Patterns of stars creating a picture are called this.
What is a constellation?
100
Look at your handout. These two planets full day is very close to 1/2 of an actual Earth day.
What are Saturn & Jupiter?
100
This is used to observe objects far away.
What is a telescope?
200
This planet was once 8th out of 9 but is now the last planet in our Solar System.
What is Neptune?
200
This is what the outer planets are mostly made of.
What are gases?
200
A meteor is also called this.
What is a shooting star?
200
Looking at your handout, this rocky cored planet is blue due to what?
What is Uranus due to methane gas?
200
This is what "holds" the planets in place.
What is the Sun's gravity?
300
This planet is the only planet in our Solar System that can sustain life.
What is Earth?
300
The cause of Jupiter's striped coloring.
What is the wind speed moving the sand on the windiest planet?
300
This planet has the coldest temperature?
What is Neptune?
300
This is used to identify constellations in the night sky?
What is a star chart?
300
This is the best way to remember the order of the planets...but we added Pluto.
What is My Very Enormous Monster Just Sucked Up Nine Planets?
400
This is very special about Venus.
What is it is the hottest planet even though it is not the closest to the sun?
400
The direction of Uranus orbit.
What is perpendicular to the sun?
400
These are small, airless rocky worlds revolving around the sun.
What are Asteroids?
400
Looking at your handout, this planet is the second largest in diameter.
What is Saturn?
400
Even though this planet is closest to the sun, it is not the hottest.
What is Mercury?
500
This is on the poles of Mars and is thought to be a reason we may be able to inhabit this planet someday.
What are ice caps at the northern and southern poles of Mars?
500
These planets are known for having rings, some more recently discovered than others.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune & Uranus.
500
When one of these comes close to the sun, its ice vaporizes and creates a tail called a coma.
What is a comet?
500
This is the difference between the diameter of the smallest planet from the diameter of the largest planet.
What is 83,969 miles?
500
This planet is called the Red Planet (extra point if you can tell me why).
What is Mars?