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Vocabulary
Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Misc
Challenge
100
This movement describes an object spinning in a circle
What is rotation
100
This is our home planet
What is Earth
100
This planet is the largest planet in our solar system. It is known for having a giant red storm that is visible from space.
What is Jupiter
100
The two reasons that we experience day and night
What is the Earth's rotation and the Sun's light
100
This is the phase of the moon where it looks like there is no moon in the sky
What is new moon
200
This movement describes an object circling around another object
What is revolving
200
This planet is the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in our solar system
What is Mercurcy
200
This planet is known for its many rings and is the sixth planet from the Sun.
What is Saturn
200
The reason that there are 365 days in a year
What is the Earth's revolution around the Sun takes 365 days
200
Was Colorado's first astronaut
Who is Scott Carpenter
300
These types of planets are also known as the outer planets, they are larger and colder, and have many moons
What is gaseous planets
300
This planet is known as the Red Planet and is the fourth planet from the Sun
What is Mars
300
This planet is the eighth and final planet in our solar system. It is named after a Greek god.
What is Neptune
300
The three factors that cause us to experience seasons on Earth.
What is the Earth's tilt, revolving around the Sun, and the hemispheres lean closer or farther away from the Sun
300
These three phases of the moon are when the moon is getting bigger
What is waxing
400
These planets are known as the inner planets, are smaller and warmer and have one to two moons
What is terrestrial planets
400
This planet is known as the Earth's twin and is the hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus
400
This planet is tilted all the way on its side - almost like it has been tipped over.
What is Uranus
400
Two careers that use knowledge and/or observations of the solar system in their line of work. Explain. (Astronauts and scientists do not count.)
What is song writers, authors, teachers, soldiers, etc
400
This is what happened to spider "astronauts"
What is they were dizzy or disoriented
500
This barrier separates the inner planets from the out planets.
What is the Asteroid Belt
500
Is the reason that we have phases of the moon
What is moon's revolution around the Earth and the part of the surface of the Moon that is lit up or in the dark