Our Solar System
Planets
Smaller Bodies
Special Planet Earth
Miscellaneous
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the largest objects in our solar system; they revolve around the sun

What are the planets?

100
The eighth planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
100
A small body of ice, rock, and cosmic dust that gives off dust in the form of a tail.
What are comets?
100
Earth's major source of heat and light comes from this
What is the sun?
100
This separates the inner planets from the outer planets
What is the asteroid belt?
200

smaller, more dense, and rockier planets

What are the inner planets?

200
The hottest planet in the solar system, due to the greenhouse effect.
What is Venus?
200
A small, rocky body that travels through space.
What are meteoroids?
200
The position Earth is from the Sun.
What is 3rd?
200
The number of planets in our solar system with no moons.
What is a two?
300

larger and gaseous planets

What are the outer planets?

300
The planet with the greatest temperature range.
What is Mercury?
300
Earth's natural satellite is called this.
What is 'the moon'?
300
The phase of matter that water must exist to sustain life as we know it.
What is liquid?
300
The number of ALL of the stars in our entire solar system.
What is one?
400

the number of dwarf planets in our solar system

What is five?

400
The planet where the largest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, is located.
What is Mars?
400
A small, rocky body that travels through Earth's atmosphere and strikes the surface.
What is a meteorite?
400
The region of space that the Earth is located allowing for liquid water to exist.
What is the goldilocks zone?
400
A system that allows scientists to rate the hazard level of an object moving towards Earth.
What is the Torino Scale?
500
the most dense planet in our solar system

What is Earth?

500
The only planet to rotate on its side.
What is Uranus?
500
These "shooting stars" are small, rocky bodies entering Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
500
The many layers of gases that surround and protect Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
500
Everything in our Solar System is held together by this.
What is the Sun's Gravitational Pull.
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