Mercury
What is the name of the instrument that makes distant objects seem closer than they are?
What is a telescope
The inner planets are ___________ to the sun.
What is closest?
The inner planets have a _________ surface.
What is rocky?
The outer planets are ____________ from the sun.
The outer planets have a ___________ surface.
What is gassy?
A large object that orbits a star is a _______.
What is a planet?
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a ______.
What is a storm?
Saturn's rings are made of ___________ and __________.
What is ice and rock?
Which planet has the most moons?
What is Jupiter?
What unit do scientists use to measure the distance between the planets?
What are Astronomical Units? (AUs)
Which planet is known as the "Red Planet?"
What is Mars?
What is unique about Uranus's rotation?
What is, It's axis is tilted so far that it rotates on its side.
What is the composition of a comet?
What is frozen gasses, ice, dust, and rock?
What is a rock (shaped like a potato) and revolves around the sun called?
What is an asteroid?
What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?
What is "A meteor enters our atmosphere and most often burns up. A meteorite is when a meteor makes it through our atmosphere and hits the Earth. "
What is the shape of the planets' orbits?
(scientific name)
The objects located beyond Neptune and are hard to study are called ___________.
What are dwarf planets?
How do we know that space objects have hit our Earth? What is the evidence?
What is, "The impact left craters on our Earth. The crater that is left behind is evidence. People have found actual meteorites which are also evidence. :
What do scientists think happened to the dinosaurs?
What is, "Some scientists believe that a large meteorite hit our Earth and caused a dramatic change in our climate and environment where the dinosaurs could no long live?
Name three ways that inner planets and outer planets are different from each other?
What is....
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What sentence helps you remember the order of the planets?
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos?
Where are most of the asteroids located?
What is, the Asteroid Belt?
Which planet is so hot that it can melt lead?
What is Venus?
How long do astronauts typically live up in the International Space Station?
What is, six months?