Stars
Planets
Sun
Bonus
100
This is the closest star to earth.
What is the sun?
100
This is the 3rd planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
100
The sun is also known by this 4 letter word.
What is a star?
100
Use the model provided to name the planets in order.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
200
A group of stars that form a shape is called this.
What is a constellation?
200
This is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
200
This part of the sun can reach up to 5504 degrees Celsius.
What is the surface?
200
Earth's atmosphere is primarily composed of these 3 components.
What are nitrogen, oxygen and water?
300
This star stays in nearly the same position in the sky year round, unlike other stars.
What is the North Star (Polaris)?
300
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
300
The sun is mostly made up of these 2 gases.
What are hydrogen and helium?
300
This is the name of the laboratory in space.
What is The International Space Station?
400
The constellation "Ursa Major" is thought to be this this figure.
What is a bear (the great bear)?
400
This planet is the brightest object in the sky (apart from the sun and moon)
What is Venus?
400
It takes the sun this long to make a full rotation on its axis.
What is around 25 earth days?
400
Mars has this many rings.
What is 0 (none)?
500
This is the distance between the Earth and the Sun (in kilometers).
What is 149 million kilometers?
500
This planet takes 165 earth years to orbit the sun.
What is Neptune?
500
The circumference of the sun is this (in kilometers).
What is 4.5 million kilometers?
500
This was the spacecraft that came within 5.9 million km from the sun.
What is Solar Probe Plus?