Solar System 1
The sun is this type of object.
What is a star?
Name the Inner Planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
What keeps in orbit around the sun?
What is gravity?
This is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
Name 3 things all inner planets have in common
-Made of rock
- 2 or less moons.
- no rings
- Smaller in size
The sun produces these kinds of energy.
What is light and heat?
This planet is the smallest and closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
This is the farthest planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
Name 2 things all planets in our solar system have in common (don’t say they are in the solar system).
Orbit the sun?
Rotates
This is how long it takes the Earth to make 1 complete revolution around the Sun.
What is 365 days (1 year)?
This means to spin around on an axis.
What is rotation?
The Hottest Planet on Our Solar System.
What is Venus
What is the difference between the inner planets and outer planets?
The Inner Planets are terrestrial and the Outer Planets are made of gas.
Name 3 things all outer planet have in common.
Larger in size, 10 more more moons, made of gas, have rings
True or False
The Earth is made up of 70% water.
True
This causes day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
This is what the inner planets are made out of.
What is rock?
This is what all of the planets orbit or "go around".
What is the Sun?
How long is one complete rotation on earth?
1 day
What separates the Inner Planets from the Outer Planets?
What is an Asteroid Belt
This is the fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
Name the 4 outer planets(gas giants).
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is what orbit means.
What is to go around something in a circle?
A satellite is another name for what?
What is Moon