Maps and Charts
This is what holds object in place.
What is gravity?
This determines the length of a planet's day.
What is the length of one rotation?
Humans have left footprints on this planet.
What is Earth?
This word means the study of Earth's chemical composition.
What is geochemistry?
What is an orbit?
Outer planets have this type of surface.
What is liquid and gas?
These are known as the outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This asteroid is the size of France.
What is Ceres?
This word is a combination of the morphemes that mean "far away" and "an instrument to see."
What is telescope?
This toxic gas occur naturally in Earth's outer atmosphere.
What is ozone?
This is the only part of the moon we can see from Earth.
What is the near side?
These lie in a cluster called the Oort cloud.
What are comets?
This area of space separates the inner planets from the outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
This is a cloud of gas and dust that acts as a nursery for new stars.
What is a nebula?
This is a small rocky body that enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
This is the coldest planet in the solar system.
What is Uranus?
This can be seen from earth every 76 years.
What is Halley's comet?
These are the largest and smallest planets in the solar system.
What are Jupiter and Mercury?
This word refers to things that are related to space.
What is celestial?
A natural light display that can be seen in the sky in the Northern hemisphere.
What is an aurora?
These four planets are called "terrestrial."
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
This celestial body is locater 240,000 miles away from Earth.
What is the moon?
This planet may have once supported life.
What is Mars?
This is a scientist that studies space.
What is an astrologist?
This means to move in a circle around an axis.
What is revolve?