The Solar System
Spelling
The Moon
The Planets
Grammer
100

Does the sun move around Earth, or does Earth move around the sun?

The Earth moves around the sun.

100

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free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles

jelllyfish

100

How can we see the moon at night? Does the moon give off its own light?

The moon gives off no light of its own, but rather reflects light from the sun.

100

What is the only planet with human life?

Earth

100

A sentence with the conjunction so used in it

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200

What is the main difference between the outer and inner planets?

Inner: Rocky planets

Outer: Gas giants

200

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A tall, long-necked, popular zoo animal

giraffe

200

What does our moon orbit around?

Earth

200

What is the correct order of the planets going from the closest to the sun to the farthest away one?

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

200

What does the suffix -ful mean?

Full of something

beautiful: full of beauty

hopeful: full of hope

300

What is another name for shooting stars?

Meteors

300

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a financial plan for a defined period

budget

300

What are the two different kinds of eclipses?

Solar eclipse and lunar eclipse

300

What are the names of the 4 outer planets?

Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, & Neptune

300

A sentence with the conjunction or placed in it 

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400

Where is the asteroid belt located?

Between Mars & Jupiter

400

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a room or building equipped for games and other physical exercise

gymnasium 

400

What is created in the ocean by the moon?

Tides

400

What planet is this? How do we know?


Jupiter, because of the big red storm.

400

Where should the quotation marks be placed in this sentence: David exclaimed, Ouch, that hurt!

David exclaimed, "Ouch, that hurt!"

500

Name the two galaxies we learned about:

The Milky Way Galaxy & The Andromeda Galaxy

500

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an act of giving one thing and receiving another (especially of the same type or value) in return

exchange

500

Does the moon have more or less gravity than Earth?

less

500

The closer the planet is to the sun the ____ time it takes to orbit the sun, the farther away the planet, the ___ time it takes to orbit the sun.

less & more

500

Correct this sentence so it has a singular possessive noun placed in it:

EXAMPLE: The guitar belongs to Peter. 

Peter’s guitar

That lipstick belongs to Anna.


Anna's lipstick