The Solar System

planets

100

This is the planet that is closest to the sun.

What is Mercury?

200

Earth is the only planet with ______ which is why there is life on Earth.

What is liquid water?

300

These are the gas giants.

What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

400

These are the rocky planets.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?

500

List the planets in order from smallest to biggest.

Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

the sun

100

The sun is the center of this system.

What is the solar system?

200

The sun is a type of ________ that gives off light and heat.

What is a star?

300

It takes the earth 365 days to do this.

What is revolve (orbit) around the sun?

400

True or False: When the Sun rises and sets, it is moving around the Earth.

False, the Earth is revolving around the Sun and rotating at the same time.

500

The Sun is bigger than which of the planets?

What is all of them?

miscellaneous

100

This is the invisible line through the center of the Earth that it rotates on.

What is its axis?

200

What is the only natural satellite of Earth?

What is the Moon?

300

This dwarf planet used to be the 9th planet in our solar system.

What is Pluto?

400

These two things cause the earth to experience seasons.

What is the tilt of the earth and its revolution around the sun?

500

Demonstrate the difference between rotation and revolution.

rotation- spinning on axis

revolution- movement around the Sun

numbers

100

There are this many planets in our solar system.

What is 8 planets?

200

Mars is the ____ planet from the Sun.

What is 4th?

300

This is the 3rd planet from the sun.

What is earth?

400

This is how long it takes earth to complete one rotation.

What is 24 hours --or one day?

500

It takes this many minutes for the Sun's light to reach Earth.

What is 8 minutes?