Solar System 1
Who dunnit and missions?
Solar System 3
Solar System 4
Solar System 5 & missions
Solar System 6
100
This is a giant sphere or ball of gases that produces light and heat.
What is a star?
100
Name of the mission when astronauts landed on the moon
Apollo 11
100
This means to travel in a path around another object.
What is revolve?
100
This is a space object made up of dust and ice.
What is a comet?
100
The two most important functions of a spacesuit
Be specific in your answer
500 points but must get both correct
protection from radiation
oxygen
100
One guess-500 pts.-
Which motion does Mercury make once every 88 Earth days?
one revolution around the Sun
200
A relatively small object that is in an orbital path around the Sun.
comet
200
Who said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind?"
Neil Armstrong
200
This is a natural satellite that revolves around the Earth.
the moon
200
A visible streak of light which shows the path of a burning rocky object which has entered Earth’s atmosphere is
What is a meteor?
200
Astronauts died by fire on a pre-flight check on which mission
Apollo 1
200
triple points one guess
Which planet has a dynamic solid surface that includes shifting and recycling through the process of plate tectonics?
Earth
300
These are the four terrestrial planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
300
Space probes send information back to Earth.
Which is something they can't do:
send soil & rock samples take pictures
give info about atmosphere
send soil and rock samples
300
Two factors that affect the gravitational pull on two objects.
mass and distance
300
Triple Points and Free Candy
Gas Giants
300
The sun is mainly made up of this gas.
One guess
triple points if you get it right or -900 if you get it wrong.
hydrogen
300
This blue planet has wind speeds of 1200 mph!(was named this because it's blue like the ocean)
Neptune
400
Which planets are gas giants?
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
400
The first human in space. One guess
Yuri Gagarin
Valentina Tereshkova
Alan Shephard
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
400
Greenhouse gases cause this planet to be the hottest in our solar system.
Venus
400
Why planets in our solar system orbit the Sun
It has the greatest mass
400
The difference between a meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid.
1200 points but you must get them all correct
meteor is in our atmosphere
meteorite hits a planet or moon
meteoroid is in space
400
Which planet has the largest volcano in our solar system, called Olympus Mons?
Mars
500
This is the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
500
Negative 500
500
This is a group of large pieces of space rock with irregular shapes found between Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid belt?
500
Why do some planets have more moons?
They are large and have more ______________ _____.
They are large and have more GRAVITATIONAL PULL
500
The astronauts on the International Space Station have to recycle and generate oxygen because
not enough oxygen in space
500
This planet has a distinctive blue color due to the methane in the atmosphere and tilts nearly on its side
Uranus
600
We live in this delicious sounding galaxy.
Milky Way
600
The first man on the moon-600 points
What country was he from? 600 pts
Neil Armstrong
US
600
The Galilean Moons orbit around which gas giant?
Jupiter
600
Which motion does Jupiter make once every 10 Earth hours?
rotates on its axis
600
The largest object in the Asteroid Belt is named Ceres. It was called an __________ for many years. But Ceres is so much bigger and so different from its rocky neighbors that it was classified it as a dwarf planet in 2006.
asteroid
600
This gas giant’s most unique characteristic is its extensive system of rings, filled with ice, rocks, and dust.
Saturn