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Little round (ages 6–8): Space · Planet Earth. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.
1. Which planet is called the Red Planet?
- A. Mars
- B. Jupiter
- C. Venus
2. What do we call a hot spring that shoots water up into the air?
- A. a glacier
- B. a geyser
- C. a waterfall
3. Where does moonlight really come from?
- A. the Sun
- B. the stars
- C. a fire inside the Moon
4. Which river carved the Grand Canyon?
- A. the Colorado River
- B. the Nile River
- C. the Mississippi River
5. Which planet is famous for its huge, bright rings?
- A. Mercury
- B. Mars
- C. Saturn
6. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
- A. Mercury
- B. Venus
- C. Earth
7. Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
- A. Buzz Aldrin
- B. Neil Armstrong
- C. Michael Collins
8. What is the name of the galaxy we live in?
- A. the Andromeda Galaxy
- B. the Milky Way
- C. the Big Dipper
9. What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
- A. Earth
- B. Jupiter
- C. Saturn
10. What kind of space object is the Sun?
- A. a star
- B. a moon
- C. a planet
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- A: Mars. Mars looks red because iron in its dusty dirt has rusted.
- B: a geyser. Old Faithful in Yellowstone is one of the most famous geysers in the world.
- A: the Sun. The Moon makes no light of its own; sunlight bounces off it.
- A: the Colorado River. The river still flows along the bottom of the canyon today.
- C: Saturn. Other planets have rings too, but none are as grand as Saturn's.
- A: Mercury. Mercury is also the smallest planet, only a bit bigger than our Moon.
- B: Neil Armstrong. He got there on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
- B: the Milky Way. A galaxy is a huge group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
- B: Jupiter. If Jupiter were hollow, about 1,000 Earths could fit inside.
- A: a star. The Sun is a hot, glowing ball of gas at the center of our solar system.
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