Astronomy
This is a very large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
This is a large, round object that has cleared its orbit of debris and orbits a star.
What is a planet?
This planet looks a lot like Earth's moon.
What is Mercury?
These are made of rock and metal. Millions of them can be found between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
This keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity and inertia?
These are shapes made by groups of stars.
What are galaxies?
An early Earth-centered view of the Solar System is called this.
What is geocentric?
This planet is called Earth's twin.
What is Venus?
The tail of this object always points away from the Sun.
What is a comet?
Name two types of stars.
What are Spiral, elliptical, irregular, barred spiral?
The current view of the solar system is Sun-centered and is called this.
What is heliocentric?
This planet has 7 thin rings.
What is Saturn?
These do not hit Earth because they burn up in our atmosphere.
What are meteors?
A group of planets orbiting a star is called this.
What is a solar system.
This mnemonic helps us remember the planets in order.
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This planet has a great red spot that is a giant storm that has been going on for 300 years.
What is Jupiter?
These are known as shooting stars.
What are meteors?
This includes all matter and outer space, and everything that exists in space. It has been expanding since the Big Bang.
What is the universe?
List the planets in order, starting with the closest planet to the Sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The surface of this planet looks like a red desert.
What is Mars?
These are made up of dust, ice, and rocks and orbit the Sun. They are called dirty snowballs.
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Put these in order by size star, galaxy, solar system, universe, planet.
What is planet, star, solar system, galaxy, universe
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what is universe, galaxy, solar system, star, planet
These are the two groups of planets, those closest to the Sun and those further from the Sun. They are separated by the asteroid belt.
What are rocky/terrestrial planets and what are gas/ice giants?
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What are inner planets and outer planets?
This is the only planet with plants and animals.
What is Earth?
This is how long ago scientists believe the universe came to be. It was called The Big Bang.
What is 13.8 billion years ago.
This is a natural object that orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
This planet rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
This is the name of the galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
This exists between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
This planet is so large that all the other planets in the solar system could fit inside it.
What is Jupiter?