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Sun and Planets
Planets and Objects
Space Technology
Space History
Variety
100
A former planet made mostly of ice and rock.
What is Pluto?
100
What is Lunar Exploration?
Exploration of the Moon.
100
A rent space craft that was used to transport humans to and from space. Two crews were lost due to malfunctions.
Space Shuttle
100
First person to set foot on the Moon.
Neil Armstrong
100
Name a planet that is a Gas Giant
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
200
The reason Mercury has a year of 88 days as compared to Earth which has a year of 365 days.
It is closer to the sun.
200
The reason Neptune has the longest year.
It is the farthest planet from The Sun and it has to travel further to orbit the Sun.
200
A technology that orbits a planet or moon in order to gather information.
A Satellite
200
What was the first satellite in space called?
The Sputnik
200
Name a Terrestrial Planet
Mercury, Venus, Earth or Mars
300
The process used by the Sun that joins to nuclei to form a new nucleus.
Nuclear Fusion
300
The reason the year gets longer as planets get further from the sun.
They have to travel further to orbit the sun.
300
A type of uncrewed technology sent to other planets, moons, are objects in space to gather information that cannot be directly observed by humans.
A Space Probe
300
The model that placed the Earth as the center of the solar system.
Geocentric Model
300
The force that keeps the planets in motion.
Gravity
400
A Gas Giant that is the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
400
The Asteroid Belt is found between the last Terrestrial Planet and the first Gas Giant. Name the two planets it is in between.
Mars and Jupiter.
400
A type of technology that is used to launch both crewed and unscrewed craft into Space.
A Rocket
400
The name of the model that placed the Sun at the center of the Universe..
Heliocentric Model
400
Name of the four largest moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo?
Galilean moons
500
Name given for Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars which have dense and rocky surfaces.
Terrestrial Planets
500
Name given for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune that have deep, massive atmospheres.
Gas Giants
500
What is a Space Station?
Technology that allows humans to work and gather information in Space.
500
He discovered the 4 largest moons of Jupiter and supported the Sun-Centered (Heliocentric Model).
Galileo Galilei
500
Planets orbits are described as what type of orbits.
Elliptical