Planets
Flying Objects
Motion
Eclipses
Grab Bag
100

The fifth planet from the sun

What is Jupiter?

100

The object that is known as a shooting star.

What is a meteor?

100

Movement when a planet spins on its axis.

What is rotate or rotation?

100

An eclipse happens when one object in space _________ another from view.

What is blocks?

100

The only star in our solar system.

What is the sun?

200
This separates the inner and outer planets.

What is the asteroid belt?

200

The object that breaks off an asteroid and looks like a lumpy potato.

What is a meteoroid?

200

The path that a planet takes around the sun.

What is orbit?

200

This eclipse is when the sun is blocked by the moon.

What is a solar eclipse?

200

The time it takes Earth to make one rotation.

What is 24 hours?

300

The planet that spins sideways.

What is Uranus?

300

The object that has a highly elliptical orbit and known as a "dirty snowball".

What is a comet?

300

Earth's rotation causes this for Earth.

What is day and night?

300

The moon is completely in _________ ____________ in a lunar eclipse.

What is Earth's shadow?

300

This is when many meteors come into Earth's atmosphere at the same time and near the same place

What is a meteor shower?

400

This force holds the planets in orbit.

What is gravity?

400

The object that comes right through the Earth's atmosphere and hits Earth's surface?

What is a meteorite?

400

Earth's tilt and revolution around the sun causes this.

What is seasons?

400

The moon is between the Sun and the Earth in this eclipse.

What is a solar eclipse?

400

The shape of most planet orbits.

What is elliptical?

500

The group of planets that you cannot land on.

What is outer planets?

500

This object begins to melt when it nears the sun.

What is a comet?

500

The time it takes Earth to revolve around the sun.

What is 365 or 365.25 days?

500
The sun, Earth, and moon have to be directly in line in this order to have this eclipse.

What is a lunar eclipse?

500

This is the blanket of gases surrounding Earth or another planet.

What is atmosphere?