Planets
What is the closest planet to the Sun?
Bonus (100 points) - what is the second farthest planet from the Sun?
What is Mercury?
Bonus - what is Uranus?
What are the three types of stars?
What are dwarf stars, yellow stars, and blue giants?
What is the name for the first stage of a meteorites life?
What is meteoroid?
What are simpler names for the terrestrial planets & the gas giants?
What are the inner planets & the outer planets?
Pluto is barely larger than our own moon. True or false?
What is false?
How many layers does Earth have?
Bonus (200 points) - what are the names of the layers?
What is 4 layers?
Bonus: What are the Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, & Crust?
Our Sun is what type of star?
What is a Yellow Star?
Most asteroids orbit the Sun, between which two planets?
What is Mars & Jupiter?
How many gas giants are visible without using telescopes?
What is 2?
In what region of our solar system do Pluto & other dwarf planets inhabit?
What is the Kuiper Belt?
List the planets from closest to the Sun to the farthest away. (hint: There are 8)
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune?
When does a supernova occur?
When a blue giant star explodes.
Comet's are also known as cosmic "__________."
What are "snowballs?"
What is the largest terrestrial planet?
What is Earth?
What is a spectrometer?
What planet is known as "The Windiest Planet?"
What is Neptune?
Our sun burns a fuel called _________.
Bonus (400 points) - As a result, it creates a gas called _________.
What is hydrogen?
Bonus: What is helium?
A comet's tail can be approximately how many miles long?
What is 1 million miles?
How many natural satellites do the terrestrial planets have?
What is 3?
What is the name of the smallest moon in our solar system? (hint: it orbits Mars)
Bonus (400 points) - What is the name of the largest moon in our solar system, that orbits Jupiter?
What is Deimos?
Bonus: What is Ganymede?
What is the largest mountain in our solar system called, located on Mars?
What is Olympus Mons?
What are the three main parts of a black hole?
What are Outer Event Horizon, Inner Event Horizon, & Singularity?
What is the largest meteorite ever found on Earth called?
Bonus (500 points) - on which continent is it located?
What is the Hoba meteorite?
Bonus - what is Africa?
What two gas giants are of very similar size?
What giant moon that orbits Saturn, is larger than our Earth?
What is Titan?