The Planets
This is the fourth planet from the Sun and is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
Earth’s only natural satellite.
What is the Moon?
Earth takes this long to orbit the Sun.
What is one year or 365 days?
This is a vehicle used to travel into space.
What is a rocket?
The number of planets in our solar system.
What is eight?
The largest planet in our solar system, it has a big red spot.
What is Jupiter?
This star is at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
This causes day and night on Earth.
What is Earth’s rotation?
The first human to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The hottest planet, even though it’s not closest to the Sun.
What is Venus?
This planet is famous for its beautiful rings.
What is Saturn?
The Moon appears to change shape. These changes are called ____.
What are the Moon phases?
The tilt of Earth’s axis causes these.
What are the seasons?
Canada’s famous robotic arm used in space.
What is the Canadarm?
The two planets that do not have moons.
What are Mercury and Venus?
These two planets are called “ice giants.”
What are Uranus and Neptune?
The Moon affects this natural movement of Earth’s oceans.
What are the tides?
The imaginary line Earth spins around.
What is the axis?
This Canadian astronaut went to space and played guitar on the ISS.
Who is Chris Hadfield?
This belt of asteroids lies between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
This dwarf planet used to be the ninth planet in our solar system.
What is Pluto?
This is a group of stars that forms a pattern in the sky.
What is a constellation?
Earth is the ___ planet from the Sun.
What is the third?
This space telescope helps scientists see faraway galaxies.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This is the path that planets follow around the Sun.
What is an orbit?