The Sun, planets, moons, and other objects that orbit the Sun
What is solar system?
100
A small frozen mass of dust and gas revolving around the Sun. It usually has a tail. Stars and comets are the only objects in space that produce their own light.
What is a comet?
100
A mass of rock and metal that is located in outer space
What is a meteoroid?
100
When more than half, but less than all of the moon's near side is sunlit.
What is gibbous moon?
100
A rock orbiting the Sun; mostly located in the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter).
What is asteroid?
200
Turn on an axis.
What is rotate?
200
The four farthest planets from the sun - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
What is the outer planets?
200
When the right half of the moon's near side is sunlit.
What is first quarter?
200
To move in a path around another object.
What is revolve?
200
An imaginary line through the center of an object.
What is axis?
300
When the left half of the moon's near side is sunlit.
What is a last (third) quarter moon?
300
A large body in space that moves around a star.
What is a planet?
300
An orbiting object much like a dwarf planet that is in orbit beyond Neptune?
What are plutoids?
300
The phase of the moon when a thin part of the moon's near side is sunlit?
What is a crescent moon?
300
A meteroid that enters the earth's atmosphere. This is what we wee as "shooting stars."
What is meteor?
400
The phases of the moon when all of the moon's near side is sunlit.
What is a full moon?
400
The four planets closest to the sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
What are the inner planets?
400
The phases of the moon when the moon's near side appears totally dark?
What is a new moon?
400
An orbiting object in the solar system that is much like a planet but smaller.
What is a dwarf planet?
400
The different ways the moon looks throughout the month.
What are phases of the moon?
500
The sun, the planets, the moon and other objects that orbit the sun.
What is the solar system?
500
A very large planet made up of mostly gases.
What is a gas giant?
500
A meteor that has hit earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
500
A path of one object revolving around another object.
What is an orbit?
500
A rock orbiting the sun mostly located between Mars and Jupiter.