A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a ‘tail’ of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun
Comet
The hottest planet is
Venus
An artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication
Satellite
The natural satellite of the earth, visible (mainly at night) by reflected light from the sun
Moon
Small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets but they are much smaller than planets.
Asteroids
It is dark, cold, and very windy. It's the last of the planets in our solar system
Neptune
Beautiful light shows in the sky near the North or South Pole
Auroras
The first man to land on the moon
Neil Armstrong
The leading explanation about how the universe began
The Big Bang theory
The volume of this planet could hold more than 1,300 Earths. What planet is it?
Jupiter
The galaxy that contains our Solar System
The Milky Way
An intense shaking of Earth’s surface is called....
Earthquake
A .... ...... happens when the moon gets in the way of the sun’s light and casts its shadow on Earth. That means during the day, the moon moves over the sun and it gets dark
Solar eclipse
A mysterious object seen in the sky for which it is claimed no scientific explanation can be found
UFO
A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft, a spaceman
Astronaut
......is a type of electromagnetic radiation that makes black-light posters glow, and is responsible for summer tans — and sunburns
UV - Ultraviolet light
Saturn is further from the Sun than Jupiter: True or False
True
The first planet discovered with the use of a telescope.
It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System
Uranus
The biggest planet in our solar system
Jupiter
This planet is named after the Roman god of the sea
Neptune
A vehicle used for travelling in space
Spacecraft
It is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. Its force keeps all of the planets in orbit around the sun.
Gravity
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