Name that Planet
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
Cooler areas of the sun that appear to be darker than the hotter areas around them.
This makes the planets orbit the sun and holds everything in place.
What is gravity?
A chunk of rock in a regular orbit around the sun.
What is an asteroid?
What was to send a man to the moon?
The largest gas giant planet with a Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
Energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
Anything that has a regular orbit around a planet.
What is a satellite?
A piece of space debris that burns up in the earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
Why the space shuttle was developed.
What is to make a resusable space ship, to do research in orbit.
The second largest planet, a gas giant, that has beautiful rings.
The visible surface of the sun.
The gases surrounding a planet are its ___.
What is atmosphere?
A piece of space debris that hits the earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
To have a place to conduct long-term microgravity experiments.
What is the purpose of the International Space Station?
The hottest planet in the solar system, with sulfuric acid clouds, and is the closest in size to earth.
What is Venus?
The outermost part of the sun's atmosphere.
What is the corona?
True or False: Kepler's laws of planetary motion explain why planets move in ellipses.
What is true?
A large cloud of gas and dust in space.
What is a nebula?
Three purposes of a space suit.
What is to protect the astronaut from harmful radiation and extreme temperature, to provide pressure and air, to provide communications.
The planet with a methane atmosphere that gives it a blue color and had the Great Dark Spot.
What is Neptune?
Heated plasma that extends from the surface of the sun to 6,200 miles.
What is the chromosphere?
True or False: There are four Jovian and four terrestrial plants.
What is true.
The celestial equator on a star map corresponds to the equator on the map of the earth.
True or False: Th International Space Station was assembled in Florida.
What is False?