Inner planets
This is the planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is in the center of the solar system.
What is the Sun?
This is another name for the outer planets
What is jovian planets?
Pluto is classified as a
What is a dwarf planet?
The sun is this far away from earth.
What is 1 AU?
This is the 3rd planet from the sun.
What is earth?
The sun is a type of this gas sphere that gives off light and heat.
What is a star?
These are the main gases they are made of
What are H & He?
These chunks of ice & rock can be massive and have moons of their own.
What is asteroids?
Moons Mars has
What is 2?
This is what Venus' rotation is called because it goes 'backwards'
What is "retrograde rotation?"
It takes the earth 365 days to do this.
What is revolve (orbit) around the sun?
These outer planets have a ring system
What are all of them?
This has a bright tail and a glowing nucleus.
What is a comet?
The distance Jupiter is away from the Sun.
What is 5 AU?
~5 x's that of Earth
Name the terrestrial planets in order 1,2,3,4
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
This is how long it takes earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours --or one day?
This Jovian planet rotates on its side
What is uranus?
Moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
What are the Galilean Moons?
Venus atmospheric pressure compared to Earth
What is ~90 x more?
Mars appears red because
What is the rocks have iron oxide in them.
The sun is responsible for this first step of the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
This planet has the most known moons of our solar system
What is Jupiter?
Sun-centered solar system organization
What is the helio-centric model
This is how many Earth's could fit inside Jupiter.
What is 1000?