The force that allows the sun to pull on all the other objects in the solar system and keep them in orbit.
What is Gravity?
100
The closest planet to the sun
What is Mercury?
100
This Outer Planet is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
100
Large non-circular objects that revolve around the sun
What are Asteroids?
100
This part of Venus is responsible for making Venus the hottest planet by trapping the sun's heat through the greenhouse effect, even though it is not the closest planet to the sun!
What is the Atmosphere.
200
This part of Venus is responsible for making Venus the hottest planet, even though it is not the closest planet to the sun!
What is Venus's Atmosphere?
200
The planet that has a slightly red tinge because of its high amounts of iron-oxide in the soil.
What is Mars?
200
This outer planet is know for its elaborate ring system, as well as its moon Triton, which is larger that our moon.
What is Saturn?
200
These objects are made of rock, ice, and dust. They can form a bright tail.
What is a comet?
200
Johannes Kepler was able to make mathematical sense of the planets orbits by hypothesizing that planets orbits are actually in this shape.
What is an Ellipse?
300
Prominences, Solar Flares, and Sun Spots are features of the sun. Which of the following is the feature that results in the lowest temperatures?
What is an Sun Spot?
300
The Inner planets are all small and have one of these, which no outer planet has!
What is a rocky surface?
300
The nickname for the Outer Planets.
What is Gas Giants
300
Meteoroids are their names outside a planet, once they enter an atmosphere their new names are?
What is a meteorite?
300
Ptolemy first came up with this model of the solar system where the Earth was at the center.
What is the Geocentric model?
400
The Sun creates energy through this chemical reaction that produces Helium to Hydrogen.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
400
The Inner planets are also know as these types of planets which means earth-like.
What is Terrestrial.
400
The two planets farthest from the sun. One was discovered because scientists knew its gravity was affecting the other's orbit.
What is Neptune and Uranus?
400
These are known as shooting stars! They are the light that is created when meteorites burn.
What is a meteor?
400
Copernicus on his deathbed released a book with the idea of a sun centered solar system named this.
What is the Heliocentric Model?
500
The sun creates energy in this section where takes place. Temperatures can reach 127 million degrees F, causing nuclear fusion to take place.
What is the core.
500
This inner planet does not have an atmosphere.
What is Mercury?
500
True or False:
The Outer Planets are made of a solid core and large amounts of gases.
What is True
500
Pluto and Ceres are called this because they do not clear their orbit mainly because they are both in asteroid belts.
Pluto is near the Kuiper Belt
Ceres is in the Asteroid Belt.
What is a Dwarf Planet?
500
Galileo Galilei, used a telescope to make observations of the sky. He found what are known as the Galilean Moons which proved that not everything revolved around the earth because these moons were orbiting this planet.