Planets/Earth
Name all the planets in order starting from the planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
True or false: The sun is the largest star in our galaxy.
What is true?
Name the inner planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
Explain what causes day and night.
What is Earth spinning on its axis?
Name the outer planets.
What is Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter?
What is the imaginary line that the Earth rotates on?
What is the Earth's axis?
Does the moon rotate?
What is no?
What planet has had a 300 year old storm.
What is Jupiter?
The outer planets are also known as?
What are Gas Giants?
A tool that makes objects in space seem closer and larger is called a ...?
What is telescope?
True or false, the sun rotates around the planets.
What is no, the planets rotate around the sun?
Name 2 characteristics of mars.
Answers will vary.
Which hemisphere is angled towards the Sun when we experience the season of winter?
What is the southern hemisphere?
Daily Double!!
What outer planet has a greater mass than all the other planets combined?
What is Jupiter?
How long does one rotation on Earth’s axis take?
What is one day or 24 hours?
What is a solar eclipse?
What is an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon?
Daily Double!!!
What inner planet is the closest in size to Earth?
What is Venus?
Think about the season you are currently in. Is our hemisphere tilted toward or away from the sun?
What is toward?
Name all the planets with rings.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
How long does it take for Earth to complete one full revolution around the Sun?
What is one year or 365 days?
Name the phases of the moon.
What is First Quarter, Waxing Crescent, New Moon, Waning Crescent, Third Quarter, Waning Gibbous, Full, Waxing Gibbous?
If it is fall in the northern hemisphere, what season is it in the southern hemisphere?
What is spring?
Which outer planet has the most moons in the entire solar system?
What is Saturn?
(It has 274 moons!)