Planets
The Sun
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
100

What planet is furthest from the sun?

Neptune

100

The Sun is actually a medium sized......

Star

100

What orbits around the Sun? 

Hint: there are 8 of them

Planets

100

What orbits around the planets?

Moons

200

What is the planet closest to the sun?

Mercury

200

The Sun is _____ times bigger than Earth.

A. 200

B. 50

C. 100

D. 500

C. 100

200
What do we call where the sun and the planets live?

The Solar System

200

What is the name of something that is similar to a planet, but smaller in size?

A Dwarf Planet

300

What planet has eight rings?

Saturn

300

Name at least 1 thing the Sun provides us with

heat and light

300

What is the name of the galaxy that holds the solar system we live in?

The Milky Way

300

What is the name of the dwarf planet that used to be a planet?

Pluto

400

Name the 4 Rocky Planets

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

400

The Sun is made up of ____.

Gas

400

What is the path called the a planet or the moon takes when it travels around something

orbit

400

What is the imaginary line an object spins around, like the planets?

Axis

500

Name the 4 Gas Giants (Gas Planets)

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Naptune

500

How far away is the Sun from Earth?

93 million miles

500

What is the word for something spinning around at a center point?

Rotate

500

If you could be any planet what would you be and why?

Answer could be anything