When you wish upon a …………….
(Shooting) Star
How many planets are there in our Solar System?
There are 8 planets
Name all the planets in our solar system.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
What are the rocky objects called that travel from space and hit the earth?
Meteorites
In what year did the first moon landing take place?
(20th of July) 1969
The Earth orbits the sun.
True
False
What is this (currently orbiting the earth)?
Satellite
First invented in China, the development of the liquid-oxygen form of these allowed humans to go into space.
Rocket
a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year or about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers)
Light-year/ Lightyear
What is a UFO?
a mysterious object seen in the sky for which it is claimed no scientific explanation can be found, often supposed to be a vehicle carrying extraterrestrials
What galaxy is the Earth found in?
The Milky way
What is it called when the moon blocks our view of the sun?
A (solar) eclipse.
What's this?
Spaceship / Spacecraft
What is this called?
Telescope
What is an alien?
very different from what you are used to, especially in a way that is difficult to understand or accept. Strange
What is a person who goes into space called?
Astronaut