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Planets Within our Solar System
Our Sun
Our Moon
Misc. Questions about our Solar System
Moons of Our Solar System
100
This is the planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
100
The sun is the center of this system.
What is the solar system?
100

The moon shines at night because it reflects this.

What is sunlight?

100
This moon phase occurs when the moon is between the earth and sun so that the dark side of the moon faces earth.
What is the new moon phase?
100

This moon orbits Earth.

What is the moon?

200
This is the 3rd planet from the sun.
What is earth?
200
The sun is a type of this gas sphere that gives off light and heat.
What is a star?
200
These are hollow pits on the surface of the moon.
What are craters?
200
When the sun light shines on more and more of the moon, we say that the moon is doing this.
What is waxing?
200

This is the largest moon of Saturn.

What is Titan?

300
This is what all the planets have in common?
What is "they revolve around the sun?"
300
It takes the earth 365 days to do this.
What is revolve (orbit) around the sun?
300
The moon's gravitational pull causes this rise and fall of the ocean.
What are tides?
300
It is during this time of day that shadows are smallest.
What is midday (or noon)?
300

This Saturnian moon has a thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane.

What is Titan?

400

Name 2 planets in our solar system that are rocky.

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?

400
This is how long it takes earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours --or one day?
400
These are the apparent shapes of the moon.
What are phases?
400
These two things cause the earth to experience seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth and its revolution around the sun?
400

Believed to have a subsurface ocean, this Jovian moon is a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life.

What is Europa?

500

Name 3 planets in our solar system that are gas giants.

What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

500
The sun is responsible for this first step of the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
500

This phase of the Moon comes right after a full moon.

What is a waning gibbous?

500

This planet rotates on its side, making its axis almost horizontal compared to the other planets in our solar system.

What is Uranus?

500

This icy moon of Neptune is known for its retrograde orbit.

What is Triton?