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The Planets
The Sun
What goes up, must come down
Space Objects
Space Exploration
100
This planet is closest to the Sun
What is Mercury?
100
The sun is not a planet, it is this
What is a star?
100
This is the force that keeps all objects on Earth
What is Gravity?
100
This is also called a "dirty snowball" because it is made of ice and dust
What is a comet?
100
This is the instrument that Galileo used to look at stars and planets
What is a telescope?
200
This is the hottest planet in the Solar system
What is Venus?
200
You can fit one million of these inside the Sun
What is Earth?
200
This is that path that objects take around the Sun
What is an orbit?
200
These are usually called "shooting stars" even though they are not stars at all
What are meteors?
200
This is the the first spacecraft that took humans into space
What is a space capsule?
300
Is no longer a planet, and is now called a "dwarf planet"
What is Pluto?
300
These are giants storms on the surface of the Sun caused by magnetic fields
What are sunspots?
300
What could happen if a planet's orbit slowed down
What is fall into the Sun?
300
A belt of these is found between Mars and Jupiter
What are asteroids?
300
This is the spacecraft where astonauts stayed when they were on the moon
What is the lunar module?
400
This planet is made of gases and has thousands of rings
What is Saturn?
400
The Sun is made up of this
What are gases?
400
When the moon is directly over a body of water, it causes this
What is a high tide?
400
Most of these black, rocky objects are the size of a grain of sand
What is a meteor or meteoroid?
400
This is a large satellite that orbits the earth where astronauts live for long periods of time
What is a space station or international space station?
500
Often referred to as the "red planet" it is only half the size of Earth
What is Mars?
500
This is what it is called when gas shoots high into the air
What is a solar flare?
500
This plce has the highest and lowest tides on Earth
Where is Fundy Bay or Where is Nova Scotia
500
This is a Meteor that hasn't burned up and reaches the Earth's surface
What is a meteorite?
500
This object orbits the earth and planets, sending data back to Earth
What is a satellite?