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This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
100
This motion gives us our 24 hour day.
What is rotation?
100
What star is the center of our Solar System?
What is the sun?
100
What is the second planet from the sun?
What is Venus?
100
Another name for "dirty snowballs."
What are comets?
200
This planet has a "Great Red Spot."
What is Jupiter?
200
This motion gives us our 365 day year.
What is revolution/orbit?
200
What are patterns of stars in the sky called?
What are constellations?
200
The gas giants are also known as what?
What are the outer planets?
200
The name for the Sun and the objects that travel around it.
What is the Solar System.
300
This planet would float on water.
What is Saturn?
300
How many complete rotations has the Earth made this month?
What is 21?
300
True or False The sun is a large star.
What is False, it's a medium size star.
300
This separates the inner and outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt.
300
Space rock that burns up as they enter the Earth's atmosphere.
What is meteors.
400
This planet is considered the "third rock" from the sun.
What is the Earth?
400
What 2 forces keep planets in orbit?
What is inertia and gravity?
400
What force holds stars together?
What is gravity.
400
Why as of right is the Earth the only planet that can harbor life?
What is ideal temperature, resources are perfect, etc.
400
What is an object called that travels around a star in a path?
What is a planet?
500
This planet is "now" the farthest from the sun.
What is Neptune?
500
Why is it untrue to say, "Today the sun set at 8:15 pm."
What is the sun doesn't move, the Earth does.
500
What gases compose the sun?
What is hydrogen and helium?
500
How does the sun affect ALL of the planets in the Solar System?
What is it's gravity hold planets in orbit, light and warmth, day/night, etc.
500
Name one of the two things gravity depends on?
What is mass/distance?