Planets
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the centre of the solar system. The planets revolve around it.
What is the Sun?
What is the solar system.
This is how long it takes the moon to circle Earth.
What are 24 hours?
A tool that will help see more detail about a small area of the sky.
What is a telescope?
This planet was downgraded to a dwarf planet.
These are loose collections of rocks and frozen gases that orbit between the planets.
What are comets?
This is the galaxy that we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
This is how long it takes Earth to circle the Sun.
What are 365 days?
This planet has the most moons; 63 to be exact.
What is Jupiter?
This planet is sixth from the Sun. It is best known for the beautiful system of rings that circle the planet.
What is Saturn?
This is another name for the study of space.
What is astronomy?
These objects produce and give off their own heat and light.
What are stars?
The Sun is this hot.
What is 10,000 F or 5,600 C
An object that looks like a streak of light in the sky but is a small chunk of rock passing through Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
This planet is seventh from the Sun. Unlike other planets, this planet lies on its side. It is greenish in colour and has nine faint rings with five moons orbiting the planet.
What is Uranus?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that, to some people, seem to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
These are chunks of rock and metal that orbit between the planets.
What are asteroids?
This many Earths can fit inside the Sun.
What is 1,000,000?
When tons of matter gather at the center of the galaxy, these are formed.
What are black holes?
What is Neptune?
This is a body that does not give off light of its own. It reflects the light of the sun.
What is a planet?
These have a bright head and long, shining tail. They shine partly because of light absorbed and re-radiated from the Sun and partly because of reflected sunlight.
What are comets?
It takes this many minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.
What is 8 minutes?
These two things cause the Earth to experience seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth and its revolution around the Sun?