The Moon
A round hole caused by a meteoroid impact.
What is a crater?
The shape of the path that all planets follow.
What is an elipse?
All stars are made-up of these two gases.
What is hydrogen and helium?
A body of ice, rock and dust that follows an unusual orbit, releasing a trail of gas as it approaches the sun.
What is a comet?
Our solar system is one of billions located in this spiral galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
The first planet to have been successfully encountered by a robotic probe satellite.
What is Venus?
These rise and fall on earth due to the gravitational pull of the moon.
What are tides?
An enormous storm on Jupiter which has been raging for hundreds of years.
What is the Great Red Spot?
The age of the sun.
What is 4.6 billions years?
A chunk of rock from outer space that burns up in the atmosphere and is commonly referred to as a ‘Shooting Star’.
What is a meteor?
A theory first created by Edwin Hubble that explained how the universe was created.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
The first satellite launched into Earth’s orbit that began the ‘Space Race’.
What is Sputnik?
A moon phase where the moon is nearly full.
What is a gibbous?
The planet with the largest volcano in the solar system.
What is Mars (Olympus Mons)?
These are cooler, dark areas on the sun’s
surface.
What are sunspots?
A region of our solar system that exists beyond the orbit of Neptune.
What is the Keiper Belt?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that seem to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
The first Canadian commander of the International Space Station.
Who is Chris Hadfield?
A term describing the phases of the moon when it appears to be growing bigger every day.
What is waxing?
This planet is blue because of the methane gas in its atmosphere and is tipped on its side.
What is Uranus?
The imaginary line on earth that is closest to the sun on June 21st.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The discovery of this dwarf planet led to the demotion of Pluto from full planet status.
What is Eris?
The name of an exploding star.
What is a supernova?
A space probe launched by NASA in 1977 that has photographed each of the gas giants and will become the first human-made object to leave our solar system.
What is Voyager I?
These dark areas on the moon's surface get their Latin name because they look like seas.
What are maria?
The large amount of this gas in Venus’ atmosphere is why it is the hottest planet in the Solar System?
What is carbon dioxide?
The part of the sun that can be seen during a solar eclipse.
What is the Corona?
This moon of Saturn has an atmosphere.
What is Titan?
A cloud of gas and dust that can form a new star.
What is a nebula?
The number of men who have walked on the moon, all from the Apollo missions.
What is 12?