Miscellaneous
Planet Facts
Comets
Asteroids and Meteoroids
Insects
100
This plane is made of mostly hydrogen and helium. It is 300 times larger than Earth.
What is Jupiter?
100
These are the four inner planets in order.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
Comets are made of these materials.
What are ice and dust?
100
Asteroids can be found between these two planets
What are Mars and Jupiter?
100
These insects make up 10% of the weight of all animals combined.
What are ants?
200
Saturn's rings are made of these materials.
What are ice and rock?
200
These are the four outer planets in order.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
200
Comets are usually the size of this landform found on Earth.
What is a mountain?
200
This is why asteroids are not considered planets.
What is they are too small and numerous?
200
This insect flies faster than all others.
What is the deer bot fly?
300
This planet has eight moons with the largest being Tritan. It is 30 times farther from the sun compared to Earth.
What is Neptune?
300
How many moons does Mercury have?
What is none?
300
This is the length a comet's tail can be.
What is hunderds of kilometers (or miles) long?
300
Meteors and meteorites are made of these materials.
What are rock and dust?
300
This insect can carry deadly disease and is considered dangerous.
What is the mosquito?
400
This planet has a lot of methane gas. It's five largest moons are icy surfaces with lots of craters.
What is Uranus?
400
Venus rotates in this direction.
What is east to west or retrograde motion?
400
The inner layer of a comet is called this.
What is a nucleaus?
400
Meteors and meteorites usually come from these two sources.
What are comets and asteroids.
400
These are the three body parts of an insect.
What are head, abdomen and thorax?
500
These materials are found in the core of the gas giants: rock, ice and ------------------
What is frozen carbon dioxide?
500
How did Halley's Comet get its name?
What is Halley predicted that it would pass Earth every year and when he was proved right, they named the comet for him.
500
A famous comet that passes by Earth every 76 years has this name.
What is Halley's Comet?
500
This is the difference between a meteoid and a meteorite.
What is that a meteorite is a meteoroid that has hit Earth's surface.
500
The wings and legs are attached to this body section.
What is the throax?