The Sun
Star's
Cardinal Directions
Solar System
Question
100

Finish the statement; The Sun is the ____, ______ _____.

What is the biggest, brightest star? 

100

What is the name of the closest star to Earth?

What is the Sun?

100

What are cardinal directions?

What are North, East, South, and West?

100

What is the closest and farthest planets from the Sun?

What is Mercury and Neptune?

100

When you cannot see the Sun, where has it gone?

What is to the other side of the Earth?

200

What is the true color of the sun?

What is white?

200

Finish the statement; The lower the number the __________  the star.

What is brighter

200

What are ordinal directions?

What are Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northeast?

200

Because the Sun is at the center of the solar system, what does it provide for Earth?

What is heat and light?

200

This process occurs when water changes from a liquid into a gas.

What is evaporation? 

300
What is the Sun's position in the galaxy? 

What is at the center of the universe? 

300

Finish the statement; The higher the number the _________ the star.

What is dimmer? 

300

When the Sun is at its highest point, what time of day is it?

What is Midday?

300

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

What is Jupiter?

300

Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food through this process.

What is photosynthesis?

400

What is our solar system called?

What is the Milky Way?

400

Space is measured by what system?

What is a parsec?

400

What cardinal direction does the Sun not touch?

What is South?

400

Planets appear to move across the sky. What is this movement called?

What is orbit?

400

This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.

What is gravity? 

500

Name all nine planets.

What are Mars, Earth, Venus, Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter, and Neptune? 

500

Estimate the Sun's distance from Earth in miles.

What is 900,000 miles?

500

If the Sun is at its highest point and it's beaming on my face.  What cardinal direction am I'm walking?

What is North?

500

What is stopping the Sun from burning the Earth?

What is the atmosphere? 

500

This layer of Earth is made mostly of solid rock and is divided into tectonic plates.

What is the crust?