Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Space Challenge
100

These are the four inner planets in order.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?

100

These are the four outer planets in order.

What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?

100

These are the three classifications of galaxies scientists have. 

What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular?

200

These are the two planets that have no moons. 

What is Mercury and Venus?

200

These are the two planets that have rings of rock, ice, and dust around them. 

What is Saturn and Uranus?

200

The sun is classified as this astronomical body. Despite how large it appears; it is only medium-sized. 

What is a star? 

300

These are the two inner planets that have thick atmospheres.

What are Venus and Earth?

300

These two planets are so cold, scientists suspect that the gases might have frozen into ice near the middle. 

What are Uranus and Neptune? 

300

This is the name of the spiral galaxy that we live in. 

What is the Milky Way?

400

This is only other planet in the solar system that is likely to be inhabitable by humans. 

What is Mars?

400

This special planet has four very large moons that Galileo discovered. It helped Galileo reason that planets were something different than stars. 

What is Jupiter? 

400

These are the three parts of a spiral galaxy that you often see in diagrams. 

What is the bulge, disk, and arms?

500
All inner planets contain this solid substance.

What is Iron and/or nickel?

500

All outer planets contain this substance, which our sun also contains. 

What is hydrogen? 

500

This force changes in strength from planet to planet. It allows astronauts on the moon to jump much higher than they do on Earth. 

What is gravity?