It's A Star | Mother Earth | The Big Cheese In The Sky | Big Rocks...I Mean REALLY Big Rocks | Those Other 7 Important Planets |
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What is the Sun?
The only star in our solar system.
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What is water?
The 70% which makes up planet Earth.
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What is Earth's Moon?
The only satellite in our solar system with very common proper name.
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What is Pluto?
Formerly known as our 9th planet, is now known as a dwarf planet or just a large rock circling in orbit around the sun.
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What are Mercury & Neptune?
29 million miles and 2.8 billion miles
The planets closest to the Sun and farthest from the Sun ... (in that order).
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What is hydrogen and helium gas?
The two main gases in which the Sun is made up of.
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What is the atmosphere?
The invisible layer which allows Earth to sustain life.
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What is the United States of America?
The first country to walk on the moon.
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What is a comet?
A large rock containing ice which shines when it is warmed up from the sun or Earth's atmosphere.
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What is Jupiter?
(With 66 moons and moonlets recorded)
The planet with the most moons.
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What is the photosphere?
The surface of the Sun.
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What is Earth's only satellite?
The moon.
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What is United Soviet Socialists Republic (USSR) or Russia?
The first country to explore the moon.
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What is an asteroid?
The largest rocks in our solar system not considered a planet or dwarf planet.
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What are Venus & Uranus?
400 degrees Celsius & -227 degrees Celsius
The planets with the hottest surface temperature and coldest surface temperature ever recorded...(in that order).
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What is gravity?
The reason the Sun keeps it shape and position in our solar system.
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What is Earth's tilt on its axis?
The reason the season's change.
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What is Spring Tide?
When the full moon is lined up with Earth and the Sun to create the highest water level in the oceans.
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What is the KT boundary?
The line in the sand which supports the theory an asteroid caused a mass extinction of the dinosaurs, many plants, and sea animals.
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What is Mars?
The planet with the most visible iron oxide.
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What is 15 million degrees Celsius?
The temperature at the Sun's core.
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What is nitrogen?
The most common gas in our atmosphere.
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What is the Solar Eclipse?
When the moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface.
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What is a meteoroid?
The name given to a rock which has broken off from an asteroid and has entered the Earth's atmosphere.
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What is Jupiter?
The largest planet in the solar system.
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