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Space
Planets
Moons
Stars
Random Facts
100
How we observe objects in space.
What is by using a telescope?
100
The third planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
100
An object in space that rotates around another object.
What is a satellite?
100
The huge cloud of gases and dust that all stars form out of.
What is a nebula?
100
A rock that revolves around the Sun.
What is an asteroid?
200
The man who used the telescope for the first time, discovering Jupiter and four of its moons.
Who is Galileo?
200
The names of the four planets with gas surfaces.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
200
A natural object that orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
200
A small and very dense star that shines with a cooler white light.
What is a white dwarf?
200
An exploding star!
What is a supernova?
300
The telescope that was placed into space in 1990.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
300
The reason(s) why Pluto was determined to be a dwarf planet.
What are (1) because its orbit was more shaped like an ellipse than a circle and (2) because it was so small!
300
The two moons of Jupiter discussed in class.
What are Ganymede and Io?
300
The hottest color of a star.
What is blue?
300
Name three constellations!
What are Orion, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, ...etc!!
400
Another name for the sun and all of the planets that revolve around it.
What is the solar system?
400
True or False: Saturn is the only planet with rings.
False: Others are Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.
400
The formations that occur when an object collides with a moon.
What are craters?
400
The three kinds of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
400
What is the theory that states how the universe was formed?
The Big Bang Theory!
500
The planet with the warmest surface temperature.
What is Venus?
500
The first person to observe Saturn's rings.
Who is Galileo?
500
The names of the two moons of Mars.
What are Phobos and Deimos?
500
The second stage of a medium-sized star.
What is a protostar?
500
How often Halley's comet appears.
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