Galaxies
Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Planetary Bodies
Miscellaneous
100
What is the name of our galaxy?
What is, the Milky Way?
100
List the four inner planets in correct order.
What is, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
100
List the four outer planets.
What is, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
100
A natural or man-made object that orbits a planet.
What is a satellite or moon?
100
The sun is made of ________ and _______.
What is, Hydrogen and Helium?
200
What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
What is, an spiral galaxy?
200
Why are the inner planets called the terrestrial planets?
What is, because they are dense and made of rock?
200
Describe, in your own words, what it is like on the surface of the outer planets.
What is, the planets are made up of mostly gas and the atmospheres are filled with intense storms due to the speed of the planet's rotation.
200
A small body of ice and rock and cosmic dust that follows an elliptical orbit around the sun.
Comet
200
These are created by spots in the suns surface and are visible as auroras from Earth.
What is a Solar Flare?
300
These galaxies look like elliptical, or oval, shaped disks.
What is an Elliptical Galaxy?
300
The planet ______ has the Solar System's largest mountain called the _______.
What is, Mars and Olympus Mons.
300
Explain why Saturn would float in water if there was an ocean big enough to hold it.
What is, because the gas is so thin the planet is less dense than water so it would float?
300
A small rocky object that orbits the sun, usually in the band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is an Asteroid?
300
Which planet rotates on its side?
What is, Uranus?
400
These galaxies have a dense tightly packed core (black hole) and have 
arms that branch out from it
What is a Spiral Galaxy?
400
In your own words, describe the safe area scientists call the "Habitable Zone" that exists within the four inner planets.
What is a zone where life can exist because of its perfect conditions?
400
Why does Jupiter appear to have bands around the planet when viewing its surface?
What is, the quick spinning of the planet whips up the atmosphere, creating the bands around the planet.
400
List the two belts and one cloud that are the home for all of the extra-planetary bodies in our solar system. (List in order from closest to furthest from the sun).
What is the Asteroid Belt, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud?
400
How fast can Neptune's winds be? (mph)
What is, Over 1,300 MPH
500
These galaxies have no shape or structure and are made of young and old stars. 
What is, an irregular galaxy?
500
In your own words, describe why the inner planets have a slower rotation on their axis but a faster orbit around the sun.
What is, gravity from the sun caused the planets to orbit faster and the heavy density of the planets causes them to rotate slower on an axis?
500
In your own words, explain why the outer planets have a faster rotation on their axis but a slower orbit around the sun?
What is, because the gaseous makeup of the planets allows them to spin faster on their axis but the distance from the sun causes the orbit to be slower?
500
List the difference between a 1) Meteoroid 2) Meteor and 3) Meteorite.
What is,
1) little chunks of rock and debris in space
2) they become meteors, or shooting stars, when they fall through a planet’s atmospheres
3) they become meteorites when they strike the surface of a body
500
What is the name of the Telescope Joe's company will be launching into space in 2020? (Extra: describe in 2-3 sentences what the telescope will do in space and how it works).
What is, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope?
