Vocabulary Planet Characteristics The Solar System 20 20 20 40 40 40 60 60 60 80 80 80 100 100 100 Vocabulary 20 The Sun is the center of this model. Answer Vocabulary 20 What is the center of the heliocentric model? Vocabulary 40 Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune Answer Vocabulary 40 What are examples of outer planets and/or gas giants? Vocabulary 60 The geocentric model Answer Vocabulary 60 Which model of the universe has the Earth as the center of the solar system? Vocabulary 80 The inner planets and/or terrestrial planets Answer Vocabulary 80 Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are considered which types of planets? Vocabulary 100 A natural or manmade object that orbits a planet. Answer Vocabulary 100 What is a satellite? Planet Characteristics 20 Jupiter (size) Answer Planet Characteristics 20 What is the largest planet? Planet Characteristics 40 “Earth’s sister” Answer Planet Characteristics 40 What is another name for Venus because of its distance to Earth? Planet Characteristics 60 3/4 Answer Planet Characteristics 60 How much of the Earth is covered with water? Planet Characteristics 80 Uranus (position) Answer Planet Characteristics 80 Which planet is tilted on a 90 degree axis? Planet Characteristics 100 The Red Planet and meteorites Answer Planet Characteristics 100 What is Mars also known as, and what gifts has Mars given to Earth? The Solar System 20 A star and all the objects (planets) that revolve around it. Answer The Solar System 20 What is a solar system? The Solar System 40 An Egyptian astronomer who discovered the Geocentric model Answer The Solar System 40 Who is Ptolemy? The Solar System 60 The inner planets from asteroids Answer The Solar System 60 What does Jupiter protect, and from what? The Solar System 80 Io Answer The Solar System 80 Which of Jupiter’s moons has over 300 active volcanoes today? The Solar System 100 The sun’s solar winds blew them away Answer The Solar System 100 What happened to original atmospheres of the inner planets? Scoreboard Team A Team B 0 0