Solar System 1
What is the first planet from the sun?
Mercury.
What is the second planet from the Sun?
Venus.
Where is the Sun located in the Solar System?
It is at the center of the Solar System.
What is the name of our galaxy?
Milky Way.
What is an asteroid?
Mostly rock, some traces of metal, irregularly shaped and orbits the planets and the Sun.
What is the Sun?
It is a star.
Which is the biggest planet in the Solar System?
Jupiter is the bigges planet in the Solar System.
What is the name of our natural satellite?
The Moon.
What are the inner planets made of?
They are rocky and small.
What do the outer planets have in common?
They all have rings.
What is the distance from the Earth to the Moon? 384.400 km or 156.350 km?
The distance to the Moon is 384.400 km.
Which is the furthest planet from the Sun?
Neptune is the furthest planet from the Sun.
What are the outer planets made of?
They are very large and made of gases.
What is a meteor?
A meteor is a space rock—or meteoroid—that enters Earth's atmosphere.
The gravity is stronger if the planet is bigger. True or false?
True.
How long is a year in Neptune? 95, 135 or 165 "Earth years"?
Neptune takes about 165 Earth years to complete one orbit of the Sun.
What would you see a lot if you lived on Jupiter?
You would see lots of moons if you lived on Jupiter.
What is a meteorite?
Meteoroids are small objects in space.
What is gravity?
An invisible force that pulls objects toward each other.
Why is Mars called " The Red planet"?
Because iron minerals in the Martian soil oxidize, or rust, causing the soil and atmosphere to look red.