Walking in Sunshine
Mercury Rising/Odds and Ends
Girls are from Venus
The Big Blue Marble
Boys are from Mars
100

The Sun is not a Planet but this...

What is a Star!

100
Created by Scientists to help measure distances in Space

What is a Light year?

100
Venus became this person's evidence needed to prove the Heliocentric view was legitimate

Who is Galileo?

100

The Earth is Divided into northern and Southern Parts called ...

What are Hemispheres?


100

What numerical position in the "inner planet" group is Mars? 

what is 4th?  Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun.

200

What are the 2 main parts of the Sun?

What are the Core and the Atmosphere

200

Why can't life be sustained on Mercury

Temperature Too Extreme

No Atmosphere

Little oxygen/no water

200

 Retrograde

What is the backwards rotation of the planet venus?

200

This causes earthquakes, Tsunamis and natural disasters.  

what are Plate Tetonics?


200

Mars sometimes shines like this in the night sky.. 

What is a red star?

300

How often does the Sun rotate?

What is Once every 25 days

300

The tilt of Mercury's Axis

What is 0 degrees?

300

Venus is Earths twin becasue?

what is similar size, mass and density.?

300

What two Factors casue Changes in the earth's surface?

What is Weathering and Erosion?

300

True or False:

Mars longer but similar seasons is the result of a near identical tilt of it's access.  

True!  

Mars' tilt is 25 degrees and Earth's is 23.5 degrees.  The long season has to do with Mars orbit around the sun.  

400

The three thin layers of the Sun 

What are the 

1) photosphere

2) Chromosphere

3) The Corona

400

Rocky Crusts, more density, Faster Revolutions, inner cores of Molten Iron

What are characteristics of Inner Planets?

400

Why is venus the Brightest Planet in our Solar System?

The Clouds that surround the Planet are so thick that they reflect the Suns light.

400

This God created forcefield protects the Earth from the damaging Solar Winds and radiation from the sun. 

What is the magnetosphere? 

400

Panic and Fear

What are the names of Mars' two natural satelites. (moons).  

Phobos and Deimos

500

The combining of multiple atoms in the Sun is called?

What is Hydrogen Fusion

500

The Sun is the Center of the Universe 

Earth is never Still 

What is the Heliocentric view of the universe?

(Capernicus' Model of the Universe)

500

4 reasons why you cannot survive on Venus

Atmosphere not breathable (C02)

Pressure

Heat

Sulfuric Acid rains/High winds

500

What is the most abundant element in Earth's Atmosphere?

What is Nitrogen?
500

Why do Scientist believe that Mars is our best chance of finding life on its planet? 

What are the polar Ice caps that may contain evidence of microscopic life.