Parts of a Galaxy | Inner Solar System | Solar System | Outer Solar System | Solar System Random |
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What is the Milky Way?
Earth's home galaxy is called
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What are the rocky planets?
The four inner planet are also known as
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What is a large body of matter that travels around the sun?
Define: Planet
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What are gas giants?
The four outer planets are also known as
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What is gravity?
What force keeps the planets from flying out of the solar system?
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What is gas, dust, stars, and objects orbiting the stars?
The four types of materials that make up a galaxy are?
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What is Mars?
This planet is known for being iron rich
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What is Mercury?
________ is the smallest inner planet
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What is Jupiter?
___________ is the largest planet in the solar system
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What is an orbit?
The path of one body around another body, such as the path of Earth around the Sun is called
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What is elliptical, spiral, irregular?
Name 3 different Galaxy shapes
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What is Earth?
________ is the largest inner planet
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What is Venus?
_________ is the hottest planet in the solar system
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What is an asteroid belt?
An _______________ is a belt shaped disk that separates inner and outer planets
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What is the shape of the orbits of all planets?
These orbits are only slightly elliptical, so they appear to be circles to the naked eye.
What is an ellipse?
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What is the bulge?
Near the center of the galaxy and is round structure mostly made of old stars, gas and dust
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What is a satellite made of rock and ice that orbits a planet?
Define: moon
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What is Jupiter? (67 moons)
This planet has the most moons
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What is Saturn?
Planet known for its rings
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What is Venus and Earth?
Of the rocky planets, which have well-developed atmospheres?
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What is on the disk?
The solar system is located where in the galaxy
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What is Mars?
__________ is the only other inner planet that has moons
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What is Mars?
At this planet we start getting to negative Celsius degrees in temperature
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What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Name the four outer planets in order
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What is Neptune because it is the furthest in distance from the sun?
What planet had the longest year length and why?
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