Solar System
Our Solar System has ____ major planets.
8
Mercury orbits closer to the than any other planet in our ______ ________.
Solar System
Venus is the ______ object in the sky besides our Sun.
brightest
The Earth differs from all other _______ because it has such a wide diversity of ______ and ______ beings.
planets, life, intelligent
Mars is the ______ planet from the Sun and has _____ moons.
fourth, two
Our galaxy is called the _______ _________.
Milky Way
Mercury has no _____ or ____ on the surface.
water, air
Venus has more ________ than any other planet.
Volcanoes
The Earth has ____ moon.
one
Mars is described as the "____ ____" because it is covered with rust-like dust.
Red Planet
The ____ is the main source of light for all the planets.
Sun
Jupiter is the first of the "______ _____", Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Gas Giants
Saturn's rings are made up of millions of ___ crystals, some as big as houses and others as small as specks of dust.
ice
Uranus is the coldest _____ in our Solar System and it rolls like a ______ rather than spinning like _Earth_ and the other planets.
planet, barrel
Neptune is a large, _____ planet with a blue hydrogen-methane atmosphere and faint ______.
water, rings
Jupiter is the _____ planet in our Solar System and it is the fifth planet from the Sun.
largest
Saturn has ____ moons and is the _____ planet from the sun
62, 6
Uranus is the ______ of the four “giants”, but is still several times ______ than the Earth.
smallest, larger
Neptune is the _____ planet from the Sun and it has ____ moons.
eighth, 13
Triton is a most unusual moon since it ____ Neptune in the opposite ______ of Neptune’s own rotation on its axis.
orbits, direction