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Planets
Sun
Moon
Outer/Inner
Orbits
100
The planet closest to Earth.
What is the Mercury?
100
The sun is made of this.
What is gasses?
100
The moon is made of this.
What is rock?
100

A tool that is used to make distant objects appear closer is called what?

What is a telescope?  

100

What does the word 'orbit' mean? Give an example. 

Orbit means to spin, one example is that the Earth orbits the sun

200
This planet is the hottest planet
What is Venus?
200
Name our closest star.
What is the sun?
200
How many days does it take the moon to orbit the earth?
What is 28 days (one month)?
200

Name the Inner planets. Then name the outer planets. 

INNER: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

OUTER: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

200

The time it takes to orbit the sun exactly once is called what?

What is a year?

300
This planet is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
300
How old is the sun?
What is 5 billion years old?
300

If someone said that the moon had its own light, and they say that the proof is that it lights up the sky at night. How can we explain how that statement is wrong?

We tell them that the moon is bright because it reflects the light of the Sun. 

300

Explain to me how an optical telescope works. Give me an example of one. 

An optical telescope magnifies distant objects by collecting light. One example is the Hubble Telescope. 

300
What does the Earth spin/orbit around?

What is the Sun?

400
Name the planets in order starting with the one closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
400
The sun gives us these two things.
What is heat and light?
400
Name the year Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
What is 1969?
400

What is the ring of Saturn made up of?

Made up of Ice, Rock, and Dust.

400

What is the round body that orbits planets called?

What is the moon?
500
These two planets do not have any moons.
What is Mercury and Venus?
500

Why do planets take different amounts of time to orbit the sun? 

The further a planet is from the sun, the longer it takes to orbit the sun. 

500
The name of the space telescope that was launched almost 10 years ago to take pictures of outer space.
What is the Hubble space telescope?
500

Compare and contrast the inner and outer planets. How are the different and alike?

INNER: close to the sun, made of rock, and get heat and light

OUTER: Far from sun, made of gasses, cold and dark. 

BOTH: Orbit the sun

500

Tell me how a star / planet / moon orbit one another.

Planets spin like a top in an orbit around a star (the sun). Moons spin and orbit around a planet.