Space Exploration
An object that orbits another object in space.
What is a satellite?
Our heat, light, nourishment, and climate are all dependent on this.
What is the sun?
Dark spots on the photosphere of the sun.
What are sunspots?
Put these planets in order: Earth, Mercury, Mars, and Venus.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
The largest planet and its surface is an ocean of liquefied gas.
What is Jupiter?
Unmanned spacecrafts that are sent beyond Earth's orbit.
What is a probe?
The sun is this distance away from Earth.
What is 93 million miles away?
Energy emitted in the form of beautiful colors.
What is an aurora?
Planets that are rocky, dense, and Earthlike in composition are called this.
What is terrestrial planets?
The fourth planet from the sun and most like Earth.
What is Mars?
The ISS stands for this facility that orbits Earth.
What is the International Space Station?
The surface of the sun.
What is the photosphere?
Sunspots are usually accompanied by these bright clouds of gas on the photosphere.
What are faculae?
Outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all considered these types of giants.
What are gas giants?
The second planet from the sun and is the brightest object in the morning and evening skies.
What is Venus?
A rocket demonstrates this Newton law.
What is Newton's third law of motion?
Above the sun's surface is its atmosphere, but its atmosphere is also called this.
What is the chromosphere?
An imaginary line around which the planets rotate.
What is its axis?
An object in the solar system that orbits the sun and is big enough for its own gravity to keep it in the shape of a sphere.
What is a planet?
The blue planet that has the most violent weather.
What is Neptune?
The launch of this satellite began the "space race" between the Soviet Union and the US.
What is the Sputnik 1?
The outer most part of the sun.
What is the corona?
One complete orbit that a planet makes around the sun.
What is a revolution?
The closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This planet rotates sideways and is the seventh planet from the sun.
What is Uranus?