| A | B |
| Outer most planet | Pluto |
| Planet nearest the sun | Mercury |
| Time it takes to orbit the sun once | a year |
| force of attraction | gravity |
| give out light | luminous object |
| earth's shadow covering moon | lunar eclipse |
| Said planets orbited the sun | Cppernicus and Galileo |
| Evidence earth is a sphere | Mast top seen last as ship sails away |
| the moon is Earth's | natural satellite |
| the time to complete one axis rotation | a day |
| the number of planets in the solar system | nine |
| our galaxy (collection of stars) | the milky way |
| tilt of the earth's axis/angle of light | helps cause seasons |
| used for communications | telecommunication satellites |
| sun rises here | the east |
| this star stays still in the night sky | pole star |
| the largest planet in the solar system | Jupiter |
| the first man on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| "in space no one can hear you | scream" |
| USA space agency | NASA |