Spaceship Earth: Mystery Science Grade 5 Review Game

12.) What is the name of the star closest the Earth?

25.) Shooting stars are actually....

10.) How long is a year?

21.) When the moon is close to the sun,

9.) If there are long shadows at lunchtime, what season do you think it is?

13.) Planets outside our solar system are called_________

23.) The moon moves in orbit around the Earth once each

8.) What invention changed the way we think about planets?

22.) When the moon is completely dark and the cycle is about to start over it's called a

6.) Shadows are shortest at _________.

4.) The earth's __________ is the reason we have day and night.

11.) The word planet originally meant:

15.) The term scientists use to describe the zone where the temperature is just right for life as we know it is called

20.) About how fast is the Earth spinning?

16.) Plants that receive 85% of the light on Earth will

24.) We are pretty sure we can't land on any of the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) because

17.) If a planet has a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius, the water will

5.) The sun's path across the sky is LONGEST in the ____________.

7.) Why do we see different constellations at different times of the year?

18.) Who were Galileo and Copernicus?

19.) When sunrise is happening on one side of the world, what is happening on the opposite side of the world?

14.) About how many planets have been discovered outside our solar sytem?

3.) A planet with more mass has more gravity.

1.) Every planet and moon has gravity.

2.) If you live on a planet with more gravity, you will jump higher.