Earth's Life Enabling Characteristics
This force keeps Earth's atmosphere from floating away and keeps liquid water trapped on the surface...
What is gravity?
This planet is closest to the sun...
What is Mercury?
Are the inner or outer planets made of dense rock?
What are the inner planets?
This is the name of of the famous mission that landed humans on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
What is the name of the invisible force that pulls objects towards one another that causes galaxies, solar systems, stars and even planets to form?
What is gravity?
Frozen water is found on several planets or moons, but Earth is the only planet with water in this form...
What is liquid?
This planet is second from the sun, but also the hottest in our solar system because of its thick atmosphere and the green house gases...
What is Venus?
Are the inner or outer planets made of mostly gas?
What are the outer planets?
This is the name of the space laboratory, built by multiple countries working together, to help understand the effects of being in space on living things...
What is the International Space Station?
One of the biggest benefits of space exploration is the advancement of technologies. Name one technology that we can find in our everyday lives that came from a space exploration mission...
What are sunglasses, memory foam, solar panels, GPS, cell phone technology, MRI machines, cordless tools, scratch resistant lenses, smoke detectors, computer mouse, and baby formula?
Earth has many different atoms or elements that are important for living things. These elements are used by all living things to support life and are also called these...
What are nutrients?
This neighboring planet to Earth has mild enough temperatures that humans could one day establish colonies there...
What is Mars?
These are the four closest planets to the sun...
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
This is the name of the first object ever launched into space by the former Soviet Union (Russia) in 1957?
What is Sputnik 1?
Put the following in order from smallest to largest: Galaxy, Star, Universe, Solar System
Star, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe
One reason the Earth can support life is because the Earth is in the habitable zone; a region named after this fairy tale...
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
Which of the following planets will take the longest to orbit the sun? Mercury, Mars, Saturn, or Uranus?
What is Uranus?
These are the last four planets in our solar system...
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This space telescope has made several important discoveries such as the universe being filled with billions of galaxies that each contain billions of solar systems...
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
What does NASA stand for?
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
Our atmosphere provides us with air to breathe. How else does Earth's atmosphere support life?
What is Earth's atmosphere blocks radiation from the sun, shields us from asteroids, or keeps our temperatures stable?
This planet is the furthest from the sun and likely too cold to support life...
What is Neptune?
Do the inner or outer planets contain more moons?
What are the outer planets?
Name the two astronauts who first walked on the moon...
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
This is the name of the new NASA program that will be sending humans back to the moon.
What is Artemis? Artemis 2 will launch on Wednesday April 1st at 6:30pm. The Artemis 2 mission is to fly around the moon and back with humans on board. This is the first step for landing humans back on the moon. However, NASA doesn't just want to walk on the moon, they want to begin building a moon base by 2028. China has also announced putting a human on the moon by 2030. Is this the beginning of a new space race?