Statistics for Word Bank - Space

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
____ is the hottest planet in our solar system	Venus	100%
Our nearest galaxy is the ______ galaxy	Andromeda	88%
Mercury has no ______ meaning there is no wind or weather	atmosphere	88%
Pluto was recognised as a dwarf planet in _____	2006	81%
A sunset on Mars is ____	blue	75%
Earth is the only planet not named after a ____	god	75%
A ______ is the distance covered by light in a single year	light-year	75%
Uranus has ___ moons that have been discovered so far	27	69%
A day on Mercury is equivalent to _____ Earth Days	58	69%
The distance between the sun and the moon is called an ______ Unit	Astronomical	69%
Uranus's blue glow is due to the _____ in its atmosphere	gases	69%
The _______ Belt is a region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune	Kuiper	69%
Jupiter's red spot is ________	shrinking	69%
There are about ________ stars in the Milky Way	100 thousand million	63%
Only ___ of the universe is visible from Earth	5%	63%
Pluto's largest moon is called ______	Charon	63%
______ left on the moon won't disappear due to there being no wind	Footprints	63%
Any free moving _____ in space will form itself into a sphere	liquid	63%
The ________ is the only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket	Black Arrow	56%
The three main types of galaxies are: elliptical, ______ and irregular	spiral	56%