Astronomy Capture Game

ASTRONOMY CAPTURE GAME

How To Play 1. There are 2 players and 2 sets of cards per game. One set is the names of celestial bodies such as planets. The other set is the features such as colour. 2. Photocopy 3 sets of name cards and 1 set of feature cards. 3. Cut out the cards. 4. Place the name cards face up on the table. 5. Turn the feature cards face down on the table and mix them up. 6. Player 1 starts by turning up a feature card. Then he/she captures one name card that has that feature. 7. Player 2 then turns up a feature card and captures a name card that has that feature and so on. 8. The winning player is the player with the most name cards when all feature cards are used or when all matching name cards have been taken.

Name Cards (Photocopy and cut 3 sets)

MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS JUPITER

SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO PLANET

STAR SUN METEOR ASTEROID COMET

MILKY CONSTEL LIGHT MOON GALAXY WAY LATION YEAR GALAXY Feature Cards (Photocopy and cut 1 set)

Distance that It is named after It orbits The Milky Way is light travels in Roman god of between Mars one one year War and Jupiter

Astronomical It is named after This planet Southern Cross is measurement Roman god of rotates one of distance Love clockwise

This planet is Lump of This planet has A planet with next to an frozen rock one moon rings asteroid belt with a tail

Planet with Largest planet in clouds of Planet called Planet with 2 our solar system sulphuric acid the ‘Evening moons Star’ It is composed It takes 24 Large group of of the gases, Closest planet to hours to stars hydrogen and Sun rotate once helium A planet with Its atmosphere similar This planet has Planet with has 20% oxygen temperature to life no moons Earth Fast-spinning Also called a planet with a 8th planet from This planet is ‘shooting star’ banded the sun blue appearance Small group of It is yellow and It takes 365 stars that form a about 4.5 Furthest planet days to rotate pattern billion years from Sun once old It makes Its Leo the Lion is energy by Planet with a atmosphere one nuclear fusion red spot has methane